Top 43 Jessica Knoll Quotes
#1. I think you know when two people are meant for each other when you see that they're better people together than they are when they're apart.
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#2. I wrapped myself in the flimsy hospital gown and tiptoed across the hospital room to sit down on the hospital bed, holding my arms across my chest, trying to contain my breasts. They seemed enormous and unpredictable without a bra.
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#3. Education, travel, culture - this is what any pennies pinched should be used for, never flashy cars, loud logos, or personal maintenance.
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#4. But I needed to build up my loneliness tolerance, was all. The loneliness became like a friend, my constant companion. I could depend on it, and only it.
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#5. Sometimes I feel like a windup doll, like I have to reach behind and turn my golden key to produce a greeting, a laugh, whatever the socially acceptable reaction should be.
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#6. I thought that by twenty-eight I could stop trying to prove myself and relax already. But this fight just gets bloodier with age.
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#7. Taste, I had yet to learn, was the delicate balance between expensive and unassuming.
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#8. It was a hard thing to do, apologize, but I've done harder things.
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#9. Maybe he wouldn't fear my bite, my kookiness, maybe he'd get past my thorny bristles to see there is sweetness here. Would understand that moving on doesn't mean never talking about it, never crying about it.
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#10. Bickering. It's so much uglier than a heated, dish-smashing fight, isn't it?
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#11. how young twenty-four is when you're not fourteen.
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#12. Women's Magazine, "A study found that the act of physically closing your menu once you've decided what to order can make you feel more satisfied with your choice.
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#13. Luke was so perfect, he made me fearless. Because how could anything bad happen around a person like that?
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#14. (Mr. Friedman) was always kind of dopey."
"Actually, Bob is very smart. Too smart to be a teacher. It's why he doesn't connect with the stuxents.
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#15. But faith doesn't mean that to me anymore. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you don't, and not giving up until you see it too.
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#16. It's a certain kind of hell, confessing your most humiliating sexual secrets to a room full of hairy middle-aged men.
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#17. Still, there was something about telling people where you worked, their eyes lighting up in recognition, that I needed right now.
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#18. First semester, I learned that Jack Rogers sandals, so revered in college, screamed, "My small liberal arts school will always be the center of the universe!" I'd found a new axis, so into the trash went my gold, silver, and white pairs.
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#19. Hallsy is the type of person others describe as "wacky" and "kooky" which is just the civilized way of saying she's a nasty cunt.
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#20. Sometimes, a momentary truce in girlhood is much more precious than a guy you really like asking you out, sticking around even after getting the milk for free.
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#21. Hemingway used to write an ending to his novel only to delete it, asserting that it made the story stronger because the reader would always be able to intuit the ghost of that final, incorporeal passage.
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#22. I couldn't decide which was worse - going gentle into that mom-jeans-wearing night, or fighting it, Botoxed and hungry, every step of the way.
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#23. All my life, I've found it difficult to advocate for myself, to ask for what I want. I fear burdening people so much.
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#25. By the end of it all I just assumed no one ever told the truth, and that was when I started lying too.
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#26. I came to the conclusion that if a woman of the cloth could be so sure she was going to heave despite being such a massive asshole, God must be more lenient than I'd been led to believe.
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#27. That would be the most surprising lesson I'd learn at Bradley: You only scream when you're finally safe.
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#28. I told Luke about that night at a time when he was enamored with me, which is the only time you should ever tell anyone something shameful about yourself - when a person is mad enough about you that disgrace is endearing.
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#29. the tuition's true payoff the connections, not the education,
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#30. It must sound stupid, but it was I realized that for rest of my life, till death do us part, it was on me to maintain this veneer's sparkly free, streak-free shine.
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#31. It must sound stupid, but it was the first time I realized that for rest of my life, till death do us part, it was on me to maintain this veneer's sparkly, streak-free shine.
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#32. In a clear voice, Mrs. Ross said, "This may be where we mark Liam's time with us, but I don't want you to think this is where you have to come to think about Liam." She held the vase close to her chest. "Think about him always." Her mouth puckered. "Anywhere.
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#33. This was my fourth summer with Luke, and every year I watched as all that good, healthy outdoor activity - running, surfing, golfing, kite boarding - multiplied the golden flecks on his nose like cancer cells.
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#34. ...sleeping pills are just button-shaped vulnerability.
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#35. was one of those awful moments where you have no control over your reaction, when the pain is too exposed to hide.
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#36. It's okay to be insufferable as long as you're aware that you're being insufferable. At least that's how I justified it to myself.
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#37. Moving on doesn't mean you don't talk about it. Or hurt about it. It's always going to hurt,
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#38. DiCaprio lose his shit for Claire Danes in Romeo + Juliet
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#39. the sun's last remaining thread fell across my face, bleaching any semblance of confidence I'd hoped to see.
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#40. It was eighteen hours ago that I discovered what the slimy inside of a brain looks like, what a face looks like without skin and lips and the odd pimple.
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#41. My favorite strategy is to feign inferiority and encourage my enemy's arrogance.
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#42. stylish, successful, engaged, and all by twenty-eight years old, no less.
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#43. There are times I'm on the subway and it's so packed I can't escape the legs on my left and right. New Yorkers rage about this forced physical contact, but I secretly savor it, so soothed by the heat generated between bodies I could fall asleep on the shoulder of a stranger.
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