Top 50 Miranda Kenneally Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to do. To get something better, you know?”

— Miranda Kenneally

2. “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”

— Miranda Kenneally

3. “You don’t need anyone’s permission to do what you love. You should just do it.”

— Miranda Kenneally

4. “When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.”

— Miranda Kenneally

5. “If you spend all your time thinking about how someone is going to one-up you, you can’t put your best foot forward.”

— Miranda Kenneally

6. “Anything can happen. Anything. Anytime, to anyone. We have to live now. Now, now, now.”

— Miranda Kenneally

7. “You know, there’s no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.”

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8. “But what happens when you don’t find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn’t great, everything isn’t perfect, but it is nice and sweet?”

— Miranda Kenneally

9. “Maybe all friendships don’t fizzle. Maybe, like the kaleidoscope, the colors just change.”

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10. “Once you get hurt the first time, the pain never, ever goes away. Maybe it dulls, but it’s always there. The.”

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11. “How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?”

— Miranda Kenneally

12. “I am so lucky. I used to think trust means “never let you down”, but really, it’s about love. Family can’t always help fix a difficult situation, and everybody makes mistakes. We shouldn’t expect perfect. But we can hope that the people we love love us enough to try to make it right.”

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13. “He stares at you at all the time in class. He misses you too.”

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14. “One thing I learned a long time ago is that even if you think you’re meant to be with someone, that doesn’t necessarily mean you get to be with them.”

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15. “And if you didn’t want him to take me away from you, maybe you should’ve talked to me when I needed you so badly on Friday.” Tears slip down my cheeks. “Maybe you should’ve taken me when you had the chance.”

— Miranda Kenneally

16. “Jordan, he’s loved you forever. It’s obvious. Have you not seen how he stares at you?”

— Miranda Kenneally

17. “If you don’t put yourself out there, if you don’t take risks, you can’t truly feel.”

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18. “I once read that football was invented so people wouldn’t notice summer ending. But I couldn’t wait for summer vacation to end. I couldn’t wait for football. Football, dominator of fall – football, love of my life.”

— Miranda Kenneally

19. “You have to take chances to get a chance at your dreams.”

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20. “The lighting is dim, and he doesn’t seem to notice I’m here, which is good, because I’ve moved from ogling the guitar to ogling him. Who wouldn’t? He was one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People,” and it is a truth universally acknowledged that you should stare at people who’ve made that list.”

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21. “Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.”

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22. “All decisions are different in hindsight. Maybe all we can do is make the best decisions we can in the moment, using the best information we have right then.”

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23. “I didn’t know crushing on a guy would require me to up my calorie intake.”

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24. “Henry keeps dealing. When all the cards have been separated, I pick up my stack and shuffle my cards again. Then I look up into Henry’s eyes, and he’s staring back at me, at my tears, and I see all these tiny wrinkles around his eyes-sadness wrinkles. He frowns, biting his lip.”

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25. “But is love without risk really love at all? Or is it a shortcut to nowhere?”

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26. “It doesn’t matter where you dance. It’s only who you’re with.”

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27. “I know I could never deserve you, but I can try to make it up to you?”

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28. “You make me feel three times the rush of skydiving or bungee jumping... I felt the biggest rush of my life when you said you love me.”

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29. “A boy should fit into your life-not become it. High school is when you start to define yourself. Don’t define yourself as the girl who has a boyfriemd and nothing else.”

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30. “What is it with me and guys? Do I come on too strong? Why do none of them want to stick around? I’m gonna be forty years old and out on a date with some man, and we’ll make out, then he’ll tell me we’re not meant to be, and I’ll go home to my fourteen cats.”

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31. “We stick together, and it makes me feel a little better knowing that, even at thirty-two, Liza hasn’t figured her life out yet.”

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32. “I saw hum run for thr first time at Wednesday’s trining session. Until then, I wasn’t aware Usain Bolt was my running coach.”

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33. “Sounds like Henry was jealous. His pride was hurt. So he acted like an ass. Every guy does that from time to time.”

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34. “This must be the weirdest thing a football coach has ever seen: two quarterbacks making out.”

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35. “Is life one big long what if?”

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36. “Sometimes friendship is just that, just being with someone.”

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37. “Going to college is sort of like starting kindergarten all over again.”

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38. “Because without her, and without knowing what I’m supposed to do next, life kind of feels like french fries without the salt. Here.”

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39. “My nose ring mixed with poor church attendance make for a sin cocktail.”

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40. “If you spend too much time dreaming, you’ll stop actually doing. And when you actually do stuff, there’s a good chance things will work out. We make things happen by attacking, not by sitting around dreaming.”

— Miranda Kenneally

41. “On the New Jersey turnpike, nobody signals when changing lanes, and it seems everyone drives twenty miles over the speed limit.”

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42. “You don’t have to be so jealous, Phillips. Maybe if you wern’t such a pig, you wouldn’t still be a virgin.”

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43. “Star says he’s sorry. For his punishment, I’m withholding carrots and he isn’t allowed to play in the pasture with the fillies for a week. That’ll teach him a lesson. I’d go crazy if someone took away my favorite food and access to girls. Feel better soon -JG.”

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44. “They do, in fact, have a pool, but no waterslide. Probably couldn’t afford one after buying that naked mermaid statue.”

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45. “Henry, stop being so jealous! I wish you’d stop being such a pansy.”

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46. “I look at his face, he reaches around his neck and pulls off the silver chain that holds the plastic football charm, fingering it. He stares down at the charm, then finds my eyes and puts the charm around my neck.”

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47. “If you spend all your time thinking about how someone is going to one-up you, you can’t put your best foot forward. You can’t spend all your mental energy focusing on your opponent. You’ll lose every time that way.”

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48. “How are poor people supposed to plan for the damned future if everything costs so damned much?”

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49. “As a house elf, would you rather be responsible for combing Hagrid’s beard or washing Snape’s greasy hair?”

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50. “Tonight, I may get so nervous that I spill my Coke of drop popcorn down inside my top. Oh God, is my red leather halter cut too low? I look down to make sure I’m not wardrobe-malfunctioning.”

— Miranda Kenneally