Quotes of Jennifer Weiner

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“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.” ― Jennifer Weiner
“I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. 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.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
“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.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home
“When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
“This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.” ― Jennifer Weiner
“I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
“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.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
“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.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home
“I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
“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.” ― Jennifer Weiner
“Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. ” ― Jennifer Weiner
“I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
“Love", I said, "is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I'm not going to be a sucker ever again.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed
“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
“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
“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
“You should be concerned about the state of your soul, not the state of your bank account.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Little Earthquakes
“There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.” ― Jennifer Weiner, Best Friends Forever
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Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eighteen books, including Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, and, most recently, That Summer. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives with her family in Philadelphia. Visit her online at JenniferWei…

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