30 Quotes & Sayings By Jasmine Warga

Jasmine Warga is a bestselling author of contemporary romance novels that will leave you swoony and sighing. Her books have been translated in over twenty languages around the world and she has been nominated by the Romance Writers of America and the Florida Romance Writers for excellence in contemporary romance. She is also a two-time RITA finalist and winner of Romance Writers of America's prestigious Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award. Jasmine currently lives in the Midwest with her husband, their cats, and too many books (she is a voracious reader as well as an avid book collector).

You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you...
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You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be. Jasmine Warga
Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black...
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Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in. Jasmine Warga
I will be stronger than my sadness.
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I will be stronger than my sadness. Jasmine Warga
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..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative. Jasmine Warga
I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us...
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I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don't want it to win. Jasmine Warga
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He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over. Jasmine Warga
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What people never understand is that depression isn't about the outside; it's about the inside. Something inside me is wrong. Sure, there are things in my life that make me feel alone, but nothing makes me feel more isolated and terrified than my own voice inside my head. Jasmine Warga
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Guidance counselors always love to say, 'Just think positively, ' but that's impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine. Jasmine Warga
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I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean. Jasmine Warga
He can't make me love him when he's going to...
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He can't make me love him when he's going to leave me. Jasmine Warga
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Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others. Jasmine Warga
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Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression. Jasmine Warga
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I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that's what love really boils down to--having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you're encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential energy spark into kinetic energy. Jasmine Warga
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Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock. Jasmine Warga
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I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I’ll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I’ll turn into a shadowy static that’s barely there, if you just listen hard enough. Jasmine Warga
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Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy? Jasmine Warga
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Yes, I'm broken. And yes, he's broken. But the more we talk about it, the more we share our sadness, the more I start to believe that there could be a chance to fix us, a chance that we could save each other. Jasmine Warga
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I wonder what it will feel like when all the lights go off and everything is quiet forever. I don't know if it will be painful, if in those last moments I'll be scared, but all I can hope is that it will be over fast. That it will be peaceful. That it will be permanent. Jasmine Warga
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I can feel everything. And I want to keep feeling everything. Even the painful, awful, terrible things. Because feeling things is what lets us know that we're alive. Jasmine Warga
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I've been thinking a lot aboit the energy of the universe. And if energy can't ever be created or destroyed, only transferred, what do you think happens to people's energy once they die? Jasmine Warga
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There's no saving him from his deep hole. There's no saving me from my black slug. Jasmine Warga
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I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out. Jasmine Warga
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He knows what he'll find if he digs deeper. there's no rush to unpack my insides. he understands there is nothing special about emptiness, nothing interesting about depression. Jasmine Warga
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I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off. Jasmine Warga
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Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression. Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it's in your bones and your blood. Jasmine Warga
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I can't wait until they don't have me here anymore. Jasmine Warga
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Nothing scares me more than a failed attempt. The last thing I want is to end up in a wheelchair, eating pulverized food and being watched around the clock by some sassy nurse who has a not-so-secret obsession with cheesy reality TV. Jasmine Warga
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It's hard to see where we're going since it's now dark, and I wonder if in some ironic twist of fate, we'll soar over the cliff without even realizing it. Like the universe's final joke: you can't plan your death, even when you try. Jasmine Warga
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I think he's looking for comfort, but I don't have any to give. Jasmine Warga