Top 70 Jill Santopolo Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Everything happens the way it’s supposed to happen.”

— Jill Santopolo

2. “Its funny to experience the same thing with different people. You see how they react, and how they meet or subvert your expectations.”

— Jill Santopolo

3. “Because we only reveal our true selves to the people we care about most.”

— Jill Santopolo

4. “The thing about roads is sometimes you happen upon them again. Sometimes you get another chance to travel down the same path.”

— Jill Santopolo

5. “We were a binary star. We orbited around each other. When you decided not to tell me, you changed that, you weren’t orbiting around me anymore, you were circling someone else, something else.”

— Jill Santopolo

6. “I love you, Lucy, like hydrogen loves oxygen. A totally different kind of love. An elemental kind.”

— Jill Santopolo

7. “Sometimes we make decisions that seem right at the time, but later, looking back, were clearly a mistake. Some decisions are right even in hindsight.”

— Jill Santopolo

8. “There’s something about death that makes people want to live. We wanted to live that day, and I don’t blame us for it. Not anymore.”

— Jill Santopolo

9. “Love does that. It makes you feel infinite and invincible, like the whole world is open to you, anything is achievable, and each day will be filled with wonder.”

— Jill Santopolo

10. “A woman filled with light makes everything she touches brighter.”

— Jill Santopolo

11. “Ordinary days sometimes turn into extraordinary days when you least expect them to.”

— Jill Santopolo

12. “A tear rolled down my cheek. If you died, I realized just then, it would mean that I’d be the keeper of our memories. I’d be the only one on Earth who had experienced them.”

— Jill Santopolo

13. “I still think about you. I think about that fork in the road, what would have happened if we’d taken it. Two roads diverged. The thing about roads, is sometimes you happen upon them again. Sometimes you get another chance to travel down the same path.”

— Jill Santopolo

14. “We see everything through the filter of our own desires and regrets, hopes and fears.”

— Jill Santopolo

15. “There are people we come across during our lives who, after they drift out of our worlds, drift out for good. Even if we see them again, it’s a quick, meaningless hi and how are you? There are other people, though, with whom things pick up right where the relationship left off, whenever we run into them. The level of comfort – it feels like no time has passed.”

— Jill Santopolo

16. “I love you, Lucy, like hydrogen loves oxygen. A totally different kind of love. An elemental kind.” And when he said that, I laughed through my tears because only my brother could explain love using the periodic table.”

— Jill Santopolo

17. “And though she was in this dark and broken place, she was still able to create beauty.”

— Jill Santopolo

18. “Sometimes, I get this feeling that we’d never be close enough. I wanted to climb inside your skin, inside your mind, so I could know all there was to know about you.”

— Jill Santopolo

19. “This dream you had wasn’t a someday dream, it was a right-now dream. You would never be happy in New York. You would never be happy with just me. You needed to confront your disappointment in the world, to work through it, if you were going to end up okay. Even then, I understood that. I just hoped you’d come back. You.”

— Jill Santopolo

20. “I hope you find a love like that–one that is all-consuming and powerful that makes you feel like you’re going slightly mad. And if you do find that love, embrace it. Hold onto it. When you give yourself over to love like that, your heart will get bruised. It will get battered. But you will also feel invincible and infinite.”

— Jill Santopolo

21. “There are so many kinds of secrets. The sweet ones you want to savor like candy, the grenades that have the potential to destroy your world, and the exciting ones that are more fun the more you share them. Even though our secret was a grenade, it still felt sweet to me.”

— Jill Santopolo

22. “Lucy. Luce. Luz is light in Spanish, right?” You paused. I nodded. “Well, thank you for filling a dark day with light.”

— Jill Santopolo

23. “So I packed up the rest of the apartment and I did, for two weeks. Kate helped me sublet the studio and then I moved to Brooklyn. I couldn’t take it anymore. I needed a new borough, a fresh start. And even there I had to avoid Bubby’s, where we went to Kevin and Sara’s wedding, and the Red Hook Lobster Pound, where we went to celebrate July Fourth. You were everywhere. We’d only been together for fourteen months, but it was fourteen months that changed my world.”

— Jill Santopolo

24. “I never knew how much I could love another human being until I met you, Gabe. I’ll.”

— Jill Santopolo

25. “But you were like a drug. When I was high on you, nothing else mattered.”

— Jill Santopolo

26. “I created a Gmail folder called Disaster and put all your e-mails in there, including that one. I didn’t write back. I knew I wouldn’t be able to bear it if you ignored me again.”

— Jill Santopolo

27. “I often think about how throughout life, we acquire people. More like People, with a capital P. The ones we go to in an emergency – the ones we know we can count on. If we’re lucky, our parents are our first People. Then our siblings. A childhood best friend. A spouse.”

— Jill Santopolo

28. “Maybe not everything all at once, but I think people can end their lives having gotten all that they wanted out of it.” And I do believe that, Gabe, I still do.”

— Jill Santopolo

29. “I think that making yourself available means putting the relationship you’re in first. Not necessarily always, but often. It means making the decision that’s best for the two of you, as a unit, even if it means compromising a little individually. It means sharing everything.”

— Jill Santopolo

30. “I’d chosen to focus on what was wrong instead of what was right.”

— Jill Santopolo

31. “The way people interpret a situation often says more about them than it does about the situation.”

— Jill Santopolo

32. “About how you felt unmoored, like no one was connecting you to the earth anymore, like you could float away and no one would notice.”

— Jill Santopolo

33. “Maybe it’s the act of caring so deeply about another person that it expands your heart.”

— Jill Santopolo

34. “It was an intimate gesture, the kind of thing that happens after all barriers of personal space have been breached.”

— Jill Santopolo

35. “I craved the kind of closeness I felt in your embrace... I imagined giving myself over to you, completely, the way I used to, abandoning all control, letting you be in charge. I wanted that. I needed that. I’d been trying so hard to hold everything together, and I was done. I needed someone else to take over. I needed YOU to take over.”

— Jill Santopolo

36. “What if – ” You never finished the sentence, as if you were afraid to say it, or maybe it was that you were afraid for me to hear it.”

— Jill Santopolo

37. “I learned how to capture lightness of spirit while photographing you. You were my muse, my inspiration for all those shots.”

— Jill Santopolo

38. “Maybe before you start flirting with boys and kissing boys and trying to date boys, you should know who you are and where you stand.”

— Jill Santopolo

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39. “There is an element of peace in believing that we’re only players on a stage, acting out stories directed by someone else.”

— Jill Santopolo

40. “The problem with living in the now is it means, by definition, you’re not making plans for the future.”

— Jill Santopolo

41. “Grief felt like it mixed up her brain and her heart, put them back in the wrong places. She wasn’t sure how she’s set that right ever again.”

— Jill Santopolo

42. “You wanted me because of. Darren wanted me in spite of.”

— Jill Santopolo

43. “Whether it’s destiny or decision that has kept us connected all these years. Or a combination of both, taking the current when it serves.”

— Jill Santopolo

44. “What I wanted to tell you is that there are lots of ways to love people and I know that you’ll love someone else again. Even if it’s not the same, some of it might be better.”

— Jill Santopolo

45. “The moment your body enveloped mine, that’s how I felt – safe, enfolded in the strength and warmth of your arms.”

— Jill Santopolo

46. “I knew I’d have to forget that, ignore what could be.”

— Jill Santopolo

47. “As far as I’m concerned, ninety-nine percent of surprises should be avoided at all cost. When I can prepare for something, I’m much better at handling it.”

— Jill Santopolo

48. “I didn’t write back. I knew I wouldn’t be able to bare it if you ignored me again.”

— Jill Santopolo

49. “But what was true then, and has been true as long as I’ve known you, is that you find beauty everywhere. You notice things other people don’t. It’s something I’ve always admired about you.”

— Jill Santopolo

50. “My body reacts so physically to you that it’s almost bizarre. Its’ been like that ever since I met you, and I always assumed – perhaps hoped – that would change at some point. But it never has.”

— Jill Santopolo