Jennifer Jaynes > Quotes

“You don't need to talk to someone to know them. All you need to do is watch. See how they carry themselves. See how they treat others.”
― Jennifer Minar-Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“she’d been merely existing, not really living.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Disturbed

“...It's better to feel the world around you. People let themselves become too desensitized. How can you write if you don't feel anything?”
― Jennifer Minar-Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“It was refreshing to be around someone else who was damaged and wasn’t afraid to admit to it.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Disturbed

“My mother always said that love is an entanglement. If you get too tangled, you lose yourself. It’s just a distraction. A way of escaping into someone else because you think that’ll be what finally makes you happy. Like a drug.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to realize without a doubt that something was bad for you.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Disturbed

“She fixed people because she didn’t know how to fix herself.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Ugly Young Thing

“And I’m not the law, so I don’t pose a threat. I’m just a nosy little old lady.” Detective Lambert nodded. “Makes sense.” “Not”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Don't Say a Word

“ballerina lay toppled over on her vanity table. A can of hairspray lay on its side on top of her bed, and clothes were strewn all over the carpet. The room smelled moldy. Wondering if there was a wet towel in Kelsey’s closet, Rachel walked across the room and opened the door. “What are you doing in here?”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“And because they’d doubted her, it had been so easy for her to doubt herself.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, The Stranger Inside

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“and wait to”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“dissociative amnesia, a neurological condition caused by severe trauma.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Don't Say a Word

“She remembered the sound she’d thought she heard the night before. The strong sense of being watched. It was nothing. Just forget about it, she told”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Don't Say a Word

“asked Ellie about it, but Ellie just shrugged. Then she’d asked Alexa. After Alexa claimed she didn’t know anything about it, she had asked Josh . . . and he’d come clean and told her that he smoked every now”
― Jennifer Jaynes, The Stranger Inside

“Even though she had fallen in love with him, she could never choose him over her children. The overpowering need to protect them was in her blood. They had been and always would be her priority.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, The Stranger Inside

“little,”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“He was sure that people liked him because of the person he pretended to be.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“The next thing she remembered was a sudden burst of noise, the freezing cold, and white-hot pain knifing through her body. Then two men. One of them, Detective Lang, told her they were the police and that everything would be okay.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Disturbed

“The voice began protesting again, but he forced it to the back of his mind. He was exactly where he wanted to be. He was also blissfully unaware that his life was about to change in every way imaginable—and within a year’s time, one of them would be dead and the other would be on the run.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Malice

“You teach people how to treat you. You do. You need to think about that when it comes to Alexa. I know how much you love her. Don’t think for a second that I don’t. And because I love you, I love her, too. But think about what you’ve taught her, and if you want to continue doing it. Think about it, and you might decide that I’m right about this.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, The Stranger Inside

“getting started. It disheartened him just thinking about it.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Ugly Young Thing

“We’re having such a hard time, Daddy,” she told him. “Everyone’s so miserable without you. I just want so badly for things to go back to the way they were.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“You don’t need to talk to someone to know them. All you need to do is watch.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“not forgiving was like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Don't Say a Word

“Chelsea couldn’t care less about the weather. She’d much rather be in her apartment with all her comforts. Away from the crowds, from the possibility of Ethan watching her without her knowledge. “Yeah, I guess it does,” she agreed.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Disturbed

“She tore her gaze away from the spot where her brother had died and fumbled in her back pocket for another cigarette.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Ugly Young Thing

“be. It just didn’t make sense. She thought about Haley. The rumble of an eighteen-wheeler grew closer, and she opened her eyes. The rig pulled”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“The asphalt was agonizing but also therapeutic in a way. A Southern antidepressant.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers

“Moments later, the cowbells clattered, and Rachel Anderson, the creative-writing teacher from the community college, walked in. Rachel, wearing a floor-skimming lavender skirt, her long, blond hair pulled into a neat French braid, scanned the diner. Settling her sunglasses on the top of her head, she went to the counter and politely addressed the group.”
― Jennifer Jaynes, Never Smile at Strangers