Jennifer Hillier > Quotes

“Living a life that isn’t meant for you is its own version of hell.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“You know what it’s like having a child? ... It’s like your heart walking out the door on two legs, vulnerable and unprotected. It’s scary as hell.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“In every story, there’s a hero and villain. Sometimes one person can be both.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Who would have thought that who you love and who you feel safe with might not be the same person?”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“Whoever said lying was hard was so, so wrong. Lying was easy. Lying was like a hot knife slicing through room-temperature butter. Lying was a bunch of words strung together in a pretty sentence designed to make the other person feel like everything was fine. Telling the truth, however, was impossible.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“I've learned not to make comparisons. Hell is hell, in all it's incarnations.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“Because while you can reinvent yourself, you can’t outrun yourself. As a woman once reminded her a long time ago, the common denominator in all the terrible things that have happened to you is you.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Things We Do in the Dark

“You only get one heart", Walter said to his daughter after the second one ended. He seemed sad, but not regretful. " I gave mine to your mother the day I met her. And she still has it.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“You see what you want to see, not what's there.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“The past is always with you, whether you choose to think about it or not, whether you take responsibility for it or not. You carry the past with you because it transforms you. You can try to bury it and pretend it never happened, but that doesn’t work.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Hope lasts only so long, can carry you only so far. It’s both a blessing and a curse. Sometimes it’s all you have. It keeps you going when there’s nothing else to hold on to. But hope can also be terrible. It keeps you wanting, waiting, wishing for something that might never happen. It’s like a glass wall between where you are and where you want to be. You can see the life you want, but you can’t have it. You’re a fish in a bowl.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“Everyone has a single defining moment in life, something that thrusts them irrevocably into a new direction, something that affects them at their core, something that changes them forever.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“There’s a big difference between a man who genuinely wants to be with her, and a man who just doesn’t want to go home.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“The one term Kenzie has never liked is homewrecker. She is not a homewrecker, and neither was the woman her father left them for.
Men wreck their own homes.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“You have to care at least a little to yell at someone, and he has to care about you at least a little to yell back.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“Denial is a safe little bubble that protects your soft underbelly from things that scratch, bite, and burn.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“He believed that the dead were already at peace. It was the living who suffered.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“It’s easier to make spontaneous, life-changing decisions when you’re young and fearless and have nothing to lose.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“When Joey stepped inside the bookstore, she took a long, deep inhale, and felt a genuine burst of joy. Every bookstore, everywhere, smelled the same. It smelled like home.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Things We Do in the Dark

“His job isn’t to find evidence to fit the theory. It’s to come up with a theory based on the evidence.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Maybe there was no rewind button for life, but surely Matt could change the channel.”
― Jennifer Hillier, The Butcher

“I’d rather be rich than poor. But I’d rather be happy than rich.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“He didn’t know whether to kill himself, or someone else.”
― Jennifer Hillier, The Butcher

“Marin can only imagine what the other woman is thinking. She can feel her judgment oozing through the phone line, because that’s what women do to each other. They judge.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“because in the end, people are only out to protect themselves?”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Love is unpredictable, and love hurts. Trust is reliable, dependable, and solid. Like”
― Jennifer Hillier, Little Secrets

“Because she was offered so much freedom, she hardly ever felt the need to take it. Funny how that worked.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“Nothing is more satisfying to humans than watching another person fail. Especially when it’s someone who has everything you don’t:”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts

“She feels everything, and nothing, all at the same time.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts