Jennifer Weiner quotes

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world. (Jennifer Weiner)

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

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I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

Jennifer Weiner

There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.

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People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world... But you have to do what's right for you.

Jennifer Weiner

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

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You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.

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Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.

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Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

Jennifer Weiner

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

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When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time. (Jennifer Weiner)

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

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I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

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Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.

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Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

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Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

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I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.

Jennifer Weiner

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

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Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive... it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

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Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest. (Jennifer Weiner)

So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed...

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The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard... Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

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As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn't matter, I knew that to her it did.

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Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

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Jennifer Weiner

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Photo: Rodrigo Fernández, CC BY-SA 4.0

Occupation: American Writer
Born: March 28, 1970
Quotes count: 53

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