Jennifer Hartmann > Quotes

“It’s still beating. You’re still okay. And I still love you. — Dean”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“Every love story is worth writing, no matter how messy it might be...”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“You can’t tiptoe around your heart in fear of pissing people off or hurting their feelings. Sometimes we need to be a little selfish in order to avoid a life of complacency.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“Maybe love is singing her favorite song in the dark, just so she can sleep. Maybe love is giving away the shoes on your feet to help keep her warm. Maybe love is coming over in the middle of the night when the power goes out because you know she's afraid of the dark. And maybe love is walking away because it's the only way she'll find the light again.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“Love is so many things I never thought about, never expected, never knew… and one of those things is being the best version of yourself you can possibly be, no matter how many obstacles stand in your way.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“We can’t give our heart to another without loving our own first.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“And maybe love is walking away because it’s the only way she’ll find the light again.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“It's still beating.
You're still okay.
And I still love you.
- Dean”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“love doesn’t exist without sacrifice. Sometimes those sacrifices are waking up ten minutes early to make your partner coffee. Sometimes it’s taking on a second job to support your family. Sometimes it’s staying up all night with a newborn so your significant other can finally sleep. Sometimes it’s shoveling the other person’s car out of the driveway after a snowstorm.” She places her palm against my wet cheek and smiles softly. “And sometimes it’s making the ultimate sacrifice and walking away for the greater good.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“Romanticize your life. Don’t live every day like it’s your last. Live every day like it’s your first. Lasts are tragic. Firsts are exciting and full of celebration. Look at every sunrise like it’s the first time you’ve ever seen colors like that before. Listen to your favorite song like you’ve never heard such a precious melody. If you make every day a celebration, you’ll never get bored in your own story.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Catch the Sun

“There is beauty to be found everywhere… even in the things that scare us.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Lotus

“I wish you fought for me as hard as you fought to get out of that basement.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“I want dinner dates and movie nights and homemade breakfasts after long, magical nights of lovemaking. I want to hold hands in public. I want to go on road trips, see the ocean, and laugh until our bellies ache.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“I don’t want to lose you, but I don’t know how to keep you.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“All broken things can be fixed. The hard part is deciding that they’re worth fixing.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, The Wrong Heart

“She’s stoned on sleeping pills and I’m drunk off my ass, and we’re messy, damaged humans clinging to each other as we battle through the storm together, but it’s okay because we’re together.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“There’s no shame in the struggle, but you can’t stay there forever.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“Love comes first. You’re grieving because love happened. You’re bleeding because love sank its nasty, beautiful claws in you. You’re crying because love filled you up and now it has nowhere to go.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Catch the Sun

“You don’t feel like my enemy anymore,” I finish. You feel like my lifeline.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“Kissing you feels like catching the sun,”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Catch the Sun

“We’re all human and we all screw up. We all make big, messy, life-altering mistakes, and sometimes it’s for selfish, superficial reasons like what I did…and sometimes it’s because the universe throws you a curveball, forcing you in a direction you never saw coming.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“Life is living. If you’re not living exactly the way you want to live, then what’s the fucking point?”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Older

“The Lotus will bloom into the most magnificent flower, even when its roots are in the murkiest of waters.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Lotus

“She feels like home.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“Souls don’t see, Sunny. Souls feel. They feel, and they yearn, and they know.” Swallowing, I move in closer, refusing to give up on this. Refusing to give up on her. “I’d feel you in any lifetime, in any version of any reality. And I’d know, without a doubt, without a shred of hesitation…that your soul was meant for mine.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Catch the Sun

“Just as we cannot force ourselves to love someone, we cannot force ourselves to unlove them, either. Fate can be foolish, and fate can be careless. But fate is always true.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, June First

“I thought you could fix me. But you’re killing me, Dean.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Still Beating

“I’m right here, with you, and I’m still holding onto your heart. Please don’t ask me to give it back.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Lotus

“Every moment with you fucking hurts.” His voice was pure grit, words cracking and breaking. “Every moment without you…hurts so much more.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, Older

“To lose is to have loved.”
― Jennifer Hartmann, The Wrong Heart