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“Apparently dogs are the answer to all life’s problems.” (Life’s Too Short Quotes)
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“Don’t get a cat,” she went on. “It’ll walk around pushing your drinks off the coffee table. You’re not emotionally strong enough for that.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“Even if you have no money or time or the weather is bad, you can still live an exciting life if you try.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“Hate is exhausting. Life is too short to hate. Let it go. And while you’re at it, it might help you to try to see him as a whole person who isn’t all black or white.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“I don’t pretend to be happy. I just refuse to be sad.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“I don’t think things are preordained or written in the stars. I believe we make our own destiny.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“I forced myself to stop thinking about it. To do what I always did—find gratitude in what I’d gotten instead of dwelling on what I’d lost.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly, that just to be alive, is a grand thing.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“I liked that she didn’t feel the need to impress me and I didn’t feel the need to impress her. There was something comforting about it, about just being you in whatever state you happened to be in.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“I was unmovable. I didn’t like change. I didn’t like to adapt. It was easier to decide to hate something or someone and stick with it, because the other option would be to expose myself to the unknown or open myself up to be hurt.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“I wasn’t ready to give up my love for life. And I wasn’t going to spend one more day looking at the sun. I’d never do it again. I chose living- because anything else was just waiting to die.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“I wondered how long the ripple effect lasted after someone died. Maybe until everyone who knew them was dead too? Or was it something that went on for generation after generation because the damage was handed down, touching each new person and changing them, even if they don’t know why?”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“I’m supposed to be somewhere at two and I know I’m not getting there until two fifteen, I don’t let myself be stressed until two. Because until then, I’m not actually late yet. All I’m doing is feeling the stress of a thing that hasn’t even happened.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“If you spend your life dwelling on the worst possible thing, when it finally happens, you’ve lived it twice. I don’t want to live the worst things twice.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“Just because you don’t recognize the fight they choose doesn’t mean they’re not fighting.” (Life’s Too Short Quotes)
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“Life is no excuse,” she said. “You should always have an adventure lined up. Having something to look forward to is tantamount to happiness.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“Like my life was a stuffy room, and you’re the breeze that came in when the window opened.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“One Day Syndrome. You live your life like there’ll always be one day to do all the things you put off. One day you’ll take the trip. One day you’ll have the family. One day you’ll try the thing.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“People die unexpectedly every day. They have car accidents and heart attacks and strokes and if all you do is live your life fixated on how it ends, you’re just living the end twice. We still have time and all these things that you think will save me won’t. Stop chasing it and just be happy. Be happy with me while you can.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“She beamed at me, nestled into me, perched on my lap, peppered me with kisses. I wish I’d been able to unlock this level sooner. I wish I’d met her years ago. High school. Grade school. A previous life. It all felt like lost time.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“We played like children. Had squirt gun fights in her living room, played the floor is lava. When it was negative five outside, we boiled water and threw it off the balcony to make fog. We blew bubbles to watch them freeze, made snow angels on the roof, had snowball fights”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“You are the flood Vanessa. Seeping and then pouring, washing away everything that I used to think mattered and then filling me up to the top until I’m drowned in nothing but you.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“You are the kind of man who can’t see the shapes in the clouds. And it’s not because you lack imagination. It’s because you’re too busy to look up.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“You can always figure out a way to have fun. Even if you can’t go anywhere.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“You should always have an adventure lined up. Having something to look forward to is tantamount to happiness.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
“You’re my soulmate. I’ll find you in the next life. Life I found you in this one.”
Abby Jimenez
Life’s Too Short
