Jennifer Brown Quotes

Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.

~ Jennifer Brown

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.

~ Jennifer Brown

...But would that be enough? Because at the moment it felt like it could never be enough. People needed more than a place to stay, more than a porch to sleep on. They needed a home, right? They needed love.

~ Jennifer Brown

At Garvin High we were dealt a hard dose of reality this year. People hate. That's our reality. People hate and are hated and carry grudges and want punishments ... I don't know if it's possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who've seen firsthand what hate can do. We're all hurting. We're all going to be hurting for a long time. And we, probably more than anyone else out there, will be searching for a new reality every day. A better one ... But in order to change reality you have to be willing to listen and to learn. And to hear. To actually hear.

~ Jennifer Brown

But now the other half of us was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.

~ Jennifer Brown

I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.

~ Jennifer Brown

We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was we got to this place. How the same man who held his infant daughter and kissed her tiny face could one day be so determined to shut her out of his life, out of his heart. How, even when she reacyhed out to him in distress - Please, Dad, come get me, come save me - all he could do was accuse her. How that same daughter could look at him and feel nothing but contempt and blame and resentment, because that's all that radiated off of him for so many years and it had become contagious.

~ Jennifer Brown

Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings out there, deal with them, and find a way to be okay with all that's happened.

~ Jennifer Brown

Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.

~ Jennifer Brown

Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt

~ Jennifer Brown

Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.

~ Jennifer Brown

I couldn't make myself imagine Dad holding some creamy-faced baby, cooing at it, telling it he loved it. Taking it to baseball games. Living some life he'd probably consider his 'real life,' the one he deserved rather than the one he got.

~ Jennifer Brown

At one time it really felt like forever might happen for us.

~ Jennifer Brown

you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.

~ Jennifer Brown

Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory. -- Bea

~ Jennifer Brown