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Top 9 Jennifer Vandever Quotes (2024 Update)

Jennifer Vandever Quote: “Richard and I always called you the punisher. We never had to discipline you. Not like we did Hermione or Polly. Because you were so hard on yourself. If there’s anything I want for you now, as a mother, even if I don’t ‘deserve’ it is: I want you to be gentle. I want you to have compassion. For yourself and everyone. It’s what every parent wants. If their any good. Which maybe I wasn’t...”

1. “Richard and I always called you the punisher. We never had to discipline you. Not like we did Hermione or Polly. Because you were so hard on yourself. If there’s anything I want for you now, as a mother, even if I don’t ‘deserve’ it is: I want you to be gentle. I want you to have compassion. For yourself and everyone. It’s what every parent wants. If their any good. Which maybe I wasn’t...”

— Jennifer Vandever

Jennifer Vandever Quote: “But now she regarded her sister with curious distance. She’d been so actively excluded from everything important to her she felt suddenly, intensely alone.”

2. “But now she regarded her sister with curious distance. She’d been so actively excluded from everything important to her she felt suddenly, intensely alone.”

— Jennifer Vandever

Jennifer Vandever Quote: “And who would advocate for her? Who would arrange her doctor appointments and throw out rotting bananas as she drifted into old age? Who would keep her photos, her jewelry, her horrible shadowboxes full of undergraduate angst, her hummingbird paintings, or even her tango shoes? Who would care about all the random junk she accumulated over the years and the stories that had attached to them?”

3. “And who would advocate for her? Who would arrange her doctor appointments and throw out rotting bananas as she drifted into old age? Who would keep her photos, her jewelry, her horrible shadowboxes full of undergraduate angst, her hummingbird paintings, or even her tango shoes? Who would care about all the random junk she accumulated over the years and the stories that had attached to them?”

— Jennifer Vandever

Jennifer Vandever Quote: “That’s just how it is. You get halfway through your life and realize you’ve done it all wrong. You’ve picked the wrong jobs and followed the wrong dreams. Every decision from your cradle to the counter of an upscale children’s boutique in Portland, Oregon gratingly names little fig where you now stand tethered at the age of thirty-seven for thirteen-dollars-an-hour-plus-commission has been all wrong.”

4. “That’s just how it is. You get halfway through your life and realize you’ve done it all wrong. You’ve picked the wrong jobs and followed the wrong dreams. Every decision from your cradle to the counter of an upscale children’s boutique in Portland, Oregon gratingly names little fig where you now stand tethered at the age of thirty-seven for thirteen-dollars-an-hour-plus-commission has been all wrong.”

— Jennifer Vandever

Jennifer Vandever Quote: “How had it escaped her, Rosalind wondered. How had she never appreciated that her mother was a human being with her own desires and disappointments?”

5. “How had it escaped her, Rosalind wondered. How had she never appreciated that her mother was a human being with her own desires and disappointments?”

— Jennifer Vandever

Jennifer Vandever Quote: “He turned to her and smiled. “OK. And you paint. Men come and go,” he said, wagging a finger. “Be good to yourself. What you have? Inside? That’s permanent. Any man doesn’t see that, doesn’t deserve you.”

6. “He turned to her and smiled. “OK. And you paint. Men come and go,” he said, wagging a finger. “Be good to yourself. What you have? Inside? That’s permanent. Any man doesn’t see that, doesn’t deserve you.”

— Jennifer Vandever

Jennifer Vandever Quote: “How could she love someone she barely knew? A year ago she would have said it was impossible: love was a choice people made daily and longevity was its measure. Love did not crash land in your living room leaving you squinting into daylight, picking through the debris of your former life. Only now could she see that it was sometimes a phantom thing, a stray that wandered the periphery of your life and moved in the minute you opened the door for who knew how long?”

7. “How could she love someone she barely knew? A year ago she would have said it was impossible: love was a choice people made daily and longevity was its measure. Love did not crash land in your living room leaving you squinting into daylight, picking through the debris of your former life. Only now could she see that it was sometimes a phantom thing, a stray that wandered the periphery of your life and moved in the minute you opened the door for who knew how long?”

— Jennifer Vandever

Jennifer Vandever Quote: “They didn’t talk the way new lovers often do, sharing everything; they were selective and wary. Sometime it seemed to her their relationship was mostly physical, something she enjoyed.”

8. “They didn’t talk the way new lovers often do, sharing everything; they were selective and wary. Sometime it seemed to her their relationship was mostly physical, something she enjoyed.”

— Jennifer Vandever

Jennifer Vandever Quote: “After she packed her few bags into the back of her car and hugged him, Rosalind never saw him again. After a few weeks it was like she’d never known him at all, like summer friendships she’d strike up as a child when the family stayed a few weeks at the beach or another city. The friendship was site specific. She couldn’t miss it any more than she’d miss the Eiffel Tower in her backyard. It was where it belonged, somewhere in the past.”

9. “After she packed her few bags into the back of her car and hugged him, Rosalind never saw him again. After a few weeks it was like she’d never known him at all, like summer friendships she’d strike up as a child when the family stayed a few weeks at the beach or another city. The friendship was site specific. She couldn’t miss it any more than she’d miss the Eiffel Tower in her backyard. It was where it belonged, somewhere in the past.”

— Jennifer Vandever

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