Jennifer Brown > Quotes

“Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world answer, right?”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“We all got to be winners sometimes. But what he didn’t understand was that we all had to be losers, too. Because you can’t have one without the other.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“People do it all the time--assume that they "know" what's going on in someone else's head. That's impossible. And to think it's possible is a mistake. A really big mistake. A life-ruining one if you're not careful.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“One's my favorite number. The word won being the past tense of win, and we can all say at the end of the day that we won once again, can't we? Some days making it to the end of the day is quite a victory.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“Being pretty isn't everything but sometimes being ugly is.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“All I could really think was how much I wanted to sleep. How much I wanted to be in a different world other than the one I was in.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“Oh, hell no, Romeo.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“You may not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.”
― Jennifer Brown, Thousand Words

“Time's never up", she whispered, not looking at me, but at my canvas. "Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing. Of course there is.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.”
― Jennifer Brown

“At Garvin High we were dealt a hard dose of reality this year. People hate. That's our reality. People hate and are hated and carry grudges and want punishments ... I don't know if it's possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who've seen firsthand what hate can do. We're all hurting. We're all going to be hurting for a long time. And we, probably more than anyone else out there, will be searching for a new reality every day. A better one ... But in order to change reality you have to be willing to listen and to learn. And to hear. To actually hear.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“People talked. Let them talk. Nothing I could do to stop them. They knew the thousand words, but they didn't know the rest of the story.”
― Jennifer Brown, Thousand Words

“I realized that the worst part of someone you love dying suddenly isn't the saying good-bye part. It's the part where you hope you said and did enough good stuff to make up for the bad stuff. It's the part where there are no second chances, no going back, no more opportunities to tell them how you feel about them.”
― Jennifer Brown, Torn Away

“I like that hot air balloon.' I pointed to the ceiling where an antique looking wooden hot air balloon hung.

'Yeah, I like it too. Partly because it's cool looking, but also partly because of the irony. It weighs a ton. In this office, anything can fly. No matter what is weighing it down. Even wooden balloons. Cool, huh?”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“People hate. That's our reality.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“It seemed like way too much work, cleaning up my grief.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“It was kind of weird because eventually they were all so busy hating each other, they forgot about hating me.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story.”
― Jennifer Brown, Thousand Words

“I saw everyone, a shifting sea of discomfort and sadness, each person carrying his own pain, each telling her own stories, no story more or less tragic or triumphant than any other.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“It's okay for someone to let you win sometimes, you know,' he said, getting all serious. 'We don't always have to be the losers, Valerie. They may want to make us feel that way, but we're not. Sometimes we get to win, too.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“I was both the monster and the sad girl. I couldn't separate the two.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant daughter and kissed her tiny face could one day be so determined to shut her out of his life, out of his heart. How, even when she reached out to him in distress - Please, Dad, come get me, come save me - all he could do was accuse her. How that same daughter could look at him and feel nothing but contempt and blame and resentment, because that's all that radiated off of him for so many years and it had become contagious.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List

“His eyes, searching deep into mine, felt like danger and safety all rolled into one.”
― Jennifer Brown, Bitter End

“I don’t know if it’s possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who’ve seen firsthand what hate can do. We’re all hurting. We’re all going to be hurting for a long time. And we, probably more than anyone else out there, will be searching for a new reality every day. A better one.”
― Jennifer Brown, Hate List