Jennifer Gilmore > Quotes

“I had the worst feeling, when I hung up, that I had missed the purpose of our conversation, that we both had. We had been apart for so long and no longer knew how to speak, other than as strangers. How are you feeling? we said, but what we meant was, Where are you? who are you now? Are you still in there?”
― Jennifer Gilmore, The Mothers

“You think the worst is behind you, but it's never behind you. In fact, saying something is the worst does not leave room for all the bad stuff that can follow it. You say the pain is nine, but you mean ten. You leave room.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“Sometimes you stop seeing what the person is to the world. You only see what the person is to you.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“I tried to let myself just... be. It was hard to let not knowing what was about to happen be a good thing. But I tried it out. Being in the moment. Not in the past or in the future. In this moment now.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“He tested the concoction on the schmaltz from last night’s dinner.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, Golden Country

“When had I stopped disparaging my parents’ way of life and had instead begun to covet it?”
― Jennifer Gilmore, The Mothers

“i have struggled but i have worked to make my struggles meaningful and now i am set free.”
― Jennifer Gilmore , If Only: A YA Novel About Adoption, Identity, and How Chance and Choice Shape Two Lives

“all her hates were merely fears turned around”
― Jennifer Gilmore, Something Red

“Lizzie,' he said. It was only my name, but in it was all these different emotions at aonce. A prism in a word.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“Question: Who do you go to first? The boy you love or the boy you love's dog?”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“He stood up and we hugged. This is what it was like: like all the parts of me that had been exposed, all my nerves and cells and synapses, were finally again connected.
Click.
Connor.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“Connor beams, and the light inside him somehow manages to burn brighter.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“Before I'd even said hello, Connor was telling me good-bye.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here