32 Quotes by Jennifer Lane

Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed — they’re to be acknowledged.

There was no 'I' in team, but there was meat in team. And we were all dead meat.

My dad will win, I silently countered, even as I smiled sweetly. I couldn’t wait to spike the ball right through her block, no matter how tall she was. In health class we’d learned that if Barbie were human, she’d be six feet tall and weigh one hundred pounds, and Gisele seemed pretty close to those dimensions. By contrast, my doll representation would be more like Barbie’s Fat Mexican-American Republican sidekick.

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.

Black, white, Latino, gay, straight – if any one of them came across a bear in the woods, they’d all taste like chicken.

To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness.

Leo leaned forward and met her soft lips. Their first underwater kiss created bubbles that floated lazily to the surface. Audrey ran her fingers through his coarse hair, and they lingered until his lungs were bursting.

Suppressing feelings gives them more power.

Two did not become one, but rather two came together—each one strong, healthy, and resilient, making the whole steadfast and true. They didn’t lose themselves in each other, but found themselves in each other instead.