Top 49 Jennifer Brown Quotes
#1. You can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.
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#2. Welcome to the Midwest, Mom used to say. Where the weather keeps you guessing and you're almost always sure to hate it.
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#3. All I could really think was how much I wanted to sleep. How much I wanted to be in a different world other than the one I was in.
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#4. You may not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy.
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#5. I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.
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#6. It was one of the constants of life. You are born, you die, you stand up when the bus doors open.
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#7. His eyes, searching deep into mine, felt like danger and safety all rolled into one.
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#8. I saw everyone, a shifting sea of discomfort and sadness, each person carrying his own pain, each telling her own stories, no story more or less tragic or triumphant than any other.
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#9. But would that be enough? Because at the moment it felt like it could never be enough. People needed more than a place to stay, more than a porch to sleep on. They needed a home, right? They needed love.
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#10. It was one thing to lose the people you love. That happens to everybody. But it was another thing to lose them because you just ... faded away.
I didn't want to fade away.
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#11. Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.
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#12. She's probably afraid you'll turn out like her and be married to someone you can't stand.
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#13. It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.
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#14. Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt
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#15. I understand that it would be easier for you to think of him as a hero. But, Valerie, he did kill a lot of kids. Probably not a lot of people are going to think of him as a hero.
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#16. But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.
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#17. At one time it really felt like forever might happen for us.
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#18. People talked. Let them talk. Nothing I could do to stop them. They knew the thousand words, but they didn't know the rest of the story.
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#19. Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.
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#20. We didn't know ... the reality of who those people were.
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#21. Nobody was coming to rescue me. Nobody was going to keep me safe. It was all up to me now.
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#22. One's my favorite number. The word won being the past tense of win, and we can all say at the end of the day that we won once again, can't we? Some days making it to the end of the day is quite a victory.
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#23. Time's never up", she whispered, not looking at me, but at my canvas. "Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing. Of course there is.
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#24. Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory.
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#25. That's how my brain felt. Like I was shoving odd puzzle pieces together.
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#26. Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.
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#27. I didn't answer. Just shook my head and let the tears roll.
"I just want it to go away. I just want all the drama to stop. Nobody would believe me anyway," I whispered. "Nobody would care.
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#28. Being pretty isn't everything but sometimes being ugly is.
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#30. I was both the monster and the sad girl. I couldn't separate the two.
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#31. But it was too much. All of it was too much. I didn't know what I was feeling, but I knew I needed some time alone, some space to think about everything.
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#32. It was kind of weird because eventually they were all so busy hating each other, they forgot about hating me.
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#33. A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story.
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#34. People do it all the time
assume that they "know" what's going on in someone else's head. That's impossible. And to think it's possible is a mistake. A really big mistake. A life-ruining one if you're not careful.
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#35. It's okay for someone to let you win sometimes, you know,' he said, getting all serious. 'We don't always have to be the losers, Valerie. They may want to make us feel that way, but we're not. Sometimes we get to win, too.
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#36. That you love him so much the idea of losing him hurts just as immediately and fully as if you'd already lost him?
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#37. I didn't say anything at all, because somehow saying nothing seemed more humane than giving him all these reassurances.
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#38. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world answer, right?
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#40. Just concentrate on being in the moment", he said. "Don't read into things. See what's really there ok?
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#41. Why are you so determined to make me out to be the bad guy all the time?" I stared at the side of his face, willing him to make eye contact. He didn't. "I've been doing really good lately and you don't even care.
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#42. Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings out there, deal with them, and find a way to be okay with all that's happened.
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#44. I had so much going on in my heart, and it didn't often go together or make sense or even stay the same from moment to moment. How did I speak from a heart that didn't undersand itself?
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#45. We all got to be winners sometimes. But what he didn't understand was that we all had to be losers, too. Because you can't have one without the other.
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#46. Mr.Kline was standing his ground, his arms outstretched in front of a small group of kids. He was red faced an appeared sweaty or maybe just covered with tears. I ran to catch up with them.
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#47. It seemed like way too much work, cleaning up my grief.
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#48. Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.
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#49. It'll be tough, you're going to have face a lot of dragons.
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