Jennifer Echols famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Purpose #Chance #This Life
I mean, even in these snow pants,check out my ass.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Mean #Snow #Pants
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Reading #People #Novel
Sarcasm was a weapon for children.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Children #Sarcasm #Weapons
It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.
-- Jennifer Echols

#People #Admitting #Trouble
The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Dog #Boys #Practice
When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.
-- Jennifer Echols

#People #Awful #Sometimes
My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Mistake #College #People
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Doors #Nurse #Rooms
Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Girl #Maturity #Boys
No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Too Late #Want #Detectives
That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication. You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Art #Hurt #Communication
Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?
-- Jennifer Echols

#Watches
But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Stupid #Would Be #Bars
Itâ€™s easier to remember your lies if theyâ€™re close to the truth,
-- Jennifer Echols

#Lying #Remember #Easier
Love isnâ€™t something you have to deserve.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Love Is #Deserve
But you canâ€™t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, youâ€™re dead already.
-- Jennifer Echols

#Live Your Life #Dying #Worried
How did we get to this place where we had to be tough all the time and never said how much we loved each other?
-- Jennifer Echols

#Tough #Said

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