Top 42 Jeannine Quotes
#1. But that night I thought, in the simplest of terms, maybe love was not wanting to say goodbye.
Jeannine Allison
#2. We're told perfection doesn't exist, but that couldn't be true. Maybe perfection couldn't last, but it certainly could occur. It had to, because as I stood there staring at this beautifully flawed girl and realized she was mine, no moment had ever felt so perfect.
Jeannine Allison
#4. Sometimes we think we want to be alone, when really all we want is the right person to be alone with.
Jeannine Allison
#5. You're the rose in a world full of thorns, and the rainbow at the end of a storm. You're the light people crawl through darkness for. You're the good that balances out all the bad.
Jeannine Allison
#6. I'm talking to you in bed at one in the morning. How mad can I be?
I picture him there, in what, flannel pajamas? Underwear? Nothing at all?
Jeannine Garsee
#7. Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.
Jeannine Garsee
#9. What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?
Jeannine Parvati Baker
#10. Your children need to know they are loved and safe. Everything else is adult business.
Jeannine Lee
#11. Names and knowledge change, the way the turning
world brings color or deep shadows, without a sound
even as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.
Jeannine Atkins
#13. Love, like life, isn't a tragedy or a fairy tale - it's both.
Jeannine Allison
#14. I know I can't fix you, but I can hold you. I can hold you so tight you'll forget you feel broken because I'll be holding all your broken pieces together.
Jeannine Allison
#15. Maybe you don't need to understand her; maybe you just need to want to.
Jeannine Allison
#16. One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.
Jeannine Atkins
#17. My love for Sherry had been a shout across the silent night. Standing back here, in this town with her, was like being in a canyon. That shout became an echo, and that love sounded like a deafening never-ending roar.
Jeannine Allison
#18. I'd take your tears over someone else's smile any day. I just want to be wherever you are. Even if that's crying on the bathroom floor.
Jeannine Allison
#19. If I'm not experiencing an episode then it's just the fear that one is right around the corner. I have no escape.
Jeannine Allison
#22. If you're too serious to make life a laughing matter, then you seriously need to make laughter matter to you today and every day!
Jeannine M. Luby
#23. Love's language is imprecise,
fits more like mittens than gloves.
Jeannine Atkins
#24. God, I love spending time with you." His smile eases me. "Don't get mad at me, but I'm going to say something and I have no apologies for saying it." I raise my eyebrows in curiosity. "You look fucking hot in that bikini.
Jeannine Colette
#25. As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.
Jeannine Atkins
#28. I wanted to tell all the little girls who were imagining their weddings not to fantasize about the flowers or the dress. They didn't matter... It was the look that Hunter was giving me, that was what little girls should wish for.
Jeannine Allison
#29. I want to give you all of me. But will you want all of me when you realize I'm in pieces?
Jeannine Allison
#30. Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.
Jeannine Parvati Baker
#31. Solitude my solace, wrapped around me
like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books
and I can sing as loud as I please all day and night.
[from the poem, Rapunzel: I like the Quiet]
Jeannine Hall Gailey
#32. There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.
Jeannine Atkins
#33. I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment."
"I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker.
Jeannine Garsee
#35. I never had a choice in loving you. I was born to love you. All I've ever had to do was find you.
Jeannine Allison
#37. But when a smart, gorgeous, feisty girl entered your life, you didn't ask questions, you didn't second-guess, you took her. And I'm taking her.
Jeannine Allison
#38. Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet.
And that's why Mom is always so afraid. If we don't know what made me sick in the first place, how can anyone guarantee I won't flip out again?
Jeannine Garsee
#39. Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too.
They make up your crown, he said.
Jeannine Atkins
#40. No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.
Jeannine Atkins
#41. Strong things had a breaking point, too.
Strong girls got hurt, too.
They cried.
They yelled.
They broke.
Jeannine Allison
#42. Many of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle.
Jeannine Parvati Baker
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