Jeneva Rose > Quotes

“Even when you have nothing left in your life, hope is the one thing that can never be taken away.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“Resentment only poisons the person who consumes it, not the one it’s intended for.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“She was a forgive-and-forget kind of person. I, on the other hand, always believed there was another option on the table. Forgive, forget, or fucking never let it go.”
― Jeneva Rose, One of Us Is Dead

“If you’re afraid of falling, you’ll never fly. If you’re afraid of failing, you’ll never try. If you’re afraid of dying, you’ll never truly be alive.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Sometimes you have to lose parts of yourself just to survive.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I’m trying to say Mom as many times as I possibly can because I know I’ll never call another person that again. It’s reserved only for her. There is no replacement.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I always test people. If they can’t handle me at my worst, they don’t deserve me at my best,”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“That’s the funny thing about dreams. You always eventually wake up from them.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“I spent my whole life being nervous up until I realized that life happens in between the beats of our own heart, and if it thumps too fast, there’s no space for us to live.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“It’s ironic how the ones you care for most are the ones that are most easily able to crawl inside you and do damage.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“It burns, but a good type of burn, like the small fires we sometimes need in our lives to remind us that we are alive.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“Your son is a liar, a cheater, and possibly a murderer. Your coddling and over-the-top mothering has gotten Adam into this mess. The best thing you could do as a mother is to take note from mine and kill yourself.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“If it was good, I enjoyed it. If it was bad, I learned from it. I can’t go around regretting the things I’ve done that made me me.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“That’s the thing about relationships, you never really know what’s going on in them, unless you’re a part of them.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“They say love makes you blind. This wasn’t love though. This was lust, and it makes you downright stupid.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“My mother made me wise, made me independent, made me learn how to fight for myself.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“It’s odd. Some people never see it coming, others have a countdown, and I don’t know which is worse.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I love you, Mom. Thank you for having me, for raising me, for loving me, for being like the sun . . . the one thing I could always count on.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Money comes and goes, but time only goes. Not a lot of people realize that. When you give someone your time, what you’re really giving them is a piece of you, and that’s why you have to be careful with it.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Divorce

“you can only grow so much when you’re stuck in the same place”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Did he love her? He loved parts of her. But the question isn’t whether or not he loved her. The question is… did he kill her?”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“There was something both beautiful and terrifying about isolation. It made you feel important and insignificant at the same time.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“I’m not sure if he usually drinks this much or if this is out of the ordinary for him. But then again, grief is like an airport. There are no rules or social norms. You just do what you gotta do to pass the time until you reach your next destination”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“It’s funny how memory works. Our brain decides what’s most important and retains it—the rest, it just lets go. Song lyrics we remember for years, decades even. Are they important? Most likely not. But they’re tied to salient moments.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I’ve always believed the eyes cannot lie. They hold the truths we are unable or unwilling to speak. Her eyes full, large, and bursting with pain.”
― Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Marriage

“As we age, we shed layers of ourselves, disintegrating like any other organic material, but some of us just break down faster than others.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I no longer know who I am, because sometimes we become strangers to even ourselves.”
― Jeneva Rose, One of Us Is Dead

“Women weren’t meant to be quiet.”
― Jeneva Rose, One of Us Is Dead

“Money changes people the same way death does. If you don’t know how to manage every aspect of it, it’ll bring out the worst in you.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Nothing brings people together better than death. It’s like the sound of a high-pitched whistle for a dog that has strayed from its owner. When it happens, they always come. Death reminds us that life isn’t infinite and that one day, our time will come too. We pause to listen to that reminder, to acknowledge it, to show it the respect it demands, and then we spread out into the world like pappi on a dying dandelion, waiting for it to call us again, hoping the next call will be to gather, rather than to be gathered around.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are