Jess Rothenberg Quotes & Sayings

There's no such thing as too much Disney. — Jess Rothenberg

My heart didn't fail, someone failed my heart. — Jess Rothenberg

Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help. That's right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear. — Jess Rothenberg

There's always that one guy who gets a hold on you. Not like your best friend's brother who gets you in a headlock kind of hold. Or the little kid you're babysitting who attaches himself to your leg kind of hold.
I'm talking epic. Life changing. The "can't eat, can't sleep, can't do your homework, can't stop giggling, can't remember anything but his smile" kind of hold. Like, Wesley and Buttercup proportions. Harry and Sally. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. The kind of hold in all your favorite '80s songs, like the "Must Have Been Love"s, the "Take My Breath Away"s, the "Eternal Flame"s - the ones you sing into a hairbrush-microphone at the top of your lungs with your best friends on a Saturday night. — Jess Rothenberg

I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling. — Jess Rothenberg

You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you. — Jess Rothenberg

The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back. — Jess Rothenberg

But the sort of sucky thing is, time doesn't necessarily heal all wounds. Sometimes, it just makes the wounds worse. — Jess Rothenberg

For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient. — Jess Rothenberg

I bet,' he whispered, 'once upon a time, you made someone really, really happy. — Jess Rothenberg

Don't worry." He laughed. "I'm right here. I won't let you go." - Patrick — Jess Rothenberg

I gave him a look. "Are you always this charming?"
"Are you always this beautiful? — Jess Rothenberg

I remember now." I looked into his deep, dark, familiar eyes. "And I'll never forget again. — Jess Rothenberg

You can obsess and obsess over how things ended - what you did wrong or could have done differently - but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry? — Jess Rothenberg

In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do what is right and you will be at peace. — Jess Rothenberg

I guess maybe once in a while the universe just knows a good thing when it sees it. — Jess Rothenberg

Sometimes, remembering hurts too much. — Jess Rothenberg

This Jacob dude sounds like a real Bilbo Douche-Baggins. — Jess Rothenberg

Love's super-sneaky like that. — Jess Rothenberg

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder. — Jess Rothenberg

Love is such a complete and total crock. — Jess Rothenberg

Sometimes, friends drift in and out of our lives like fashion accessories - in one season and out the next. — Jess Rothenberg

You fall, I fall, remember? — Jess Rothenberg

He took your sweet, funny, perfect heart ... and he destroyed it. Why do you keep letting him do it over and over again? — Jess Rothenberg

My heart belongs to you," I whispered. "It has always belonged to you. — Jess Rothenberg

The problem is, there is absolutely nothing "fun" about falling in love. Nope. Mostly it just makes you feel sick and crazy and anxious and nervous that it's going to end miserably and ruin your whole life. And guess what: Then it does. — Jess Rothenberg

Patrick's entire front torso was covered with gruesome stab wounds. Like he'd been run through again and again with a sharp knife - and it hadn't been an accident.
"Oh, love," I whispered. "What did you do to yourself?"
Hot tears stung my eyes as I began to trace his scars with my fingertips, leaning in to kiss them softly, one by one.
"Sui Caedere," he said. "I couldn't live without you. — Jess Rothenberg

The problem with time is, sometimes there's just too much of it. — Jess Rothenberg

Love hurts us all, no matter how old or young we are. — Jess Rothenberg

To have been lived to have love and to have been loved. — Jess Rothenberg

Because love is worth it after all. — Jess Rothenberg

War is sweet to those who have never fought. — Jess Rothenberg

I skipped toward him and gave him a tiny kiss on the cheek. "Yup."
He looked at me like I was crazy. "What was that for?"
I smiled. "For being an excellent partner in crime. — Jess Rothenberg

Turns out, hell's not so much a burning, scalding pit of fire and misery. It's actually much, much worse than that. Hell is when the people you love the most reach right into your soul and rip it out of you. And they do it because they can. — Jess Rothenberg

Just like Jacob, Larkin made me realize that no matter how much you think you know a person-no matter how pretty they are, how together they act, or how popular they seem, you can never know what their lives are really like.
Not until you ask them.
And not unless you're listening. — Jess Rothenberg

And yes, when he kisses you, the rest of the world disappears and your brain shuts off and all you can feel are his lips and nothing else matters. — Jess Rothenberg

Forever is a pretty long time. Maybe longer than you think. — Jess Rothenberg

Wait for me forever. Wait for me, for always. — Jess Rothenberg

And yes, he tells you that you're beautiful, and suddenly, you are. — Jess Rothenberg

He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes. — Jess Rothenberg

No matter how much you think you know a person - no matter how pretty they act, or how popular they seem, you can never know what their lives are really like. — Jess Rothenberg

When you're in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands. — Jess Rothenberg

Every single part of me ached, sort of like the universe was exploding inside my skull, or like my body was tearing itself apart in order to rebuild everything from the inside out. To re-create some twisted semblance of me. — Jess Rothenberg

All of a sudden I felt invisible. Forgotten. Like the universe had played a really mean practical joke on me, even though I've never done anything to deserve it. — Jess Rothenberg

I knew then that I'd been right. I had felt something changing between us in the weeks before my death - slow and steady - but just hadn't wanted to admit it. A distance had been brewing, all chilly and gray. I'd chosen to sit and watch the storm clouds gather instead of running for cover at the first hint of rain. And I had paid the price for waiting. Because the storm became a hurricane. — Jess Rothenberg

News flash: The whole thing is a huge mess and a giant nightmare and it's all about to explode in your face and you have no idea what
you've gotten yourself into. Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their
possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help.
That's right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear.
Believe me, I should know. — Jess Rothenberg

Not that I was obsessive or anything.
Au contraire, mon frere.
For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient. Why waste time and energy running around town trying to guess where a guy's going to be, when instead, you can actually know? And then you can actually be there. Pretty straightforward stuff, I tend to think. — Jess Rothenberg