Top 70 Jessi Kirby Quotes
#1. You know ... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.
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#2. It's terrifying to realize how much of your world is wrapped around loving another person.
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#3. All our firsts, and our lasts, and everything in between. They swirl and dance on the invisible currents, and then one by one, they disappear to a place they will always be a part of.
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#4. I opened my mouth to respond, then decided to do that thing where you think before you speak.
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#5. It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you'll always remember, aren't the ones you can force, or go looking for. I've always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.
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#6. I can't promise the universe is gonna tell you what to do with your life up there. But if you can keep quiet and listen close enough, for long enough, it may whisper something you need to hear.
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#7. Some things need to be said. And sometimes they require strong words.
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#8. I knew that meant we were done and that we'd smooth over the surface I'd just tossed a rock into, but even the waves that crash down on the beach start out as tiny ripples, far out at sea.
They just gain strength over time.
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#9. Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.
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#10. We found our own synchronicity together, his heart thumping out a slow. steady beat and mine filling in the spaces between
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#11. I haven't stopped thinking about Orion, and it's made a mess of me. Nothing happened between us. Nothing physical, anyway. We never touched, and after a while, we hardly even spoke. But I felt different.
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#12. Questions are dangerous territory for us.
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#13. She has no idea how careless I've already been, or that I know that heart of his maybe even better than he does.
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#14. You're okay," she says. "It's just your first time back out here. You don't need to go back.
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#15. Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.
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#16. [I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.
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#17. Today feels different because yesterday was different.
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#18. But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it's happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it's scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it's worth it.
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#19. Sometimes ... a person is up against more than they can handle. And sometimes a person loses, no matter what they're fighting for.
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#20. Do what I tell you, when I tell you, and the worst thing that'll happen is you'll fall in love.
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#21. Little victories, they're the ones that counts.
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#22. But when's the last time you took a chance? Or didn't do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn't have?
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#23. The days passed, one after another, measured out in an unbroken, never-ending rhythm.Seemingly infinite, but gone in the blink of an eye - like waves crashing on the shore, or the seasons passing.
Or the beating of a heart.
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#24. A thousand fireworks explode inside me, and I feel them in him too, in his lips on mine, and his hands in my hair, and he way we pull each other closer. Everything else falls away, and in this moment, when we touch, we are light.
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#25. Every choice has the power to affect your life later on in ways you can't go back and change.
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#26. Before I can respond, he takes his hand from behind his back. Holds it out to me. And I break, into a million invisible pieces.
He looks up from me to the sunflower in his hand and back again. "Um...
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#27. Because when these tiny little things are afraid, they shine.
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#28. Quinn, I..." He whispers the words, unfinished, into my mouth as the space between us disappears and our lips finally touch. A thousand fireworks explode inside me, and I feel them in him too, in his lips on mine, and his hands in my hairm and the way we pull each other closer
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#29. We should get these wet clothes off," I say conscious now of the cold.
A smile breaks over Colton's face. He raises an eyebrow. "Yeah?
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#31. People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth - the real version - one you could only write yourself if you were willing to.
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#32. We're all more than the person we show to everyone else.
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#33. I spent the first few months under the full weight of those regrets, thinking of a thousand different things I would've done differently had I known they were going to be the last.
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#34. Our first kiss was soft, sweet. A question on my lips. He tasted like the watermelon bubble gum he was always chewing, and the stolen summer night.
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#35. That's what seems the most sad to me - that neither of them even think there's a possibility they can be together.
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#36. I've got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold. It is my one wild and precious life, after all.
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#37. After four years we know each other's hearts and souls. We've grown and loved and fought and everything in between, which is why, to talk about who I am, I have to start with him. The person I am now, and who I want to be in the future, is wrapped up tight in Shane, and in us together.
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#38. We lie together, quiet, under an endless sky, beside a bottomless ocean, and we don't talk about how these are all the things that brought us together. We don't talk about how we wouldn't change any of them.We don't have to, because these are the things we know by heart.
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#39. But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.
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#40. In three words I can sum up all that I've learned about: It goes on.
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#41. She has that kind of manic focus about her, like if she just keeps moving, the things she's upset about can't catch her.
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#42. Taking a chance can be worth a lot more than you know.
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#43. It's easy to forget to look up when all you do is focus on the road straight ahead.
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#44. Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.
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#45. I can't say I wasn't hoping for it, but I didn't see it coming.
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#46. We didn't say anything as we ducked though the bushes and when we stood next to the car I could tell he was searching, maybe for the right thing to say. But there wasn't any right thing.
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#47. What I mean is,how does he somehow know to show me things I didn't realize I needed to see, or take me places I wouldn't have guessed I needed to go?
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#48. I want this day to be my fresh start. I want this to be the day I step out of my comfort zone and go somewhere new.
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#49. The real measure of how passionate she is about something is whether she invokes an f-bomb.
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#50. He always told me to look strong even if I didn't feel it, because sometimes that's all you can do.
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#51. Everyone wants the people to end up together in the end. It's human nature. The funny thing is, you always know they're going to. You just never know how.
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#52. One often meets her destiny on the road she takes to avoid it.
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#53. There's motion, like taking action or moving forward. There's evolution-that's growing or changing with life. And then there's illumination, which is understanding or knowing.
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#54. I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.
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#55. I'd give anything right now to go back, even just for a few moments, so I could pay more attention. Inscribe every detail of him, and of us together, onto my heart, where I could keep it safe always. Where even time couldn't erase it.
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#56. I was afraid of what he might be able to see. Because all of a suddent it didn't feel like we were standing on the beach anymore. It felt like we were balanced on a thin, thin line. That fragile one that divides the invisible space between something and nothing, or before and after.
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#57. We are made of our pasts, and our pains, our joys and our losses. It's in the very fiber of our beings. Written on our hearts.
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#58. I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.
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#59. It's too much, this. Life, and love, and how fragile it all is.
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#60. But almost moments don't count, and it all comes down to the choices I could've made but didn't.
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#61. It's not actually making the choice that take courage. It's facing it afterward.
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#62. It's a strange, surreal thing to watch an ideal crumble right in front of your eyes, and to know there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
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#63. But it's terrifying to realise how much of your world is wrapped up in loving another person
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#65. A moment was all it took to change everything.
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#66. Today the wind and I burst through the double doors together, and it carries me like someone who's going places, because now it's official. I am.
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#67. Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.
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#69. I was laughing and he was too, and there we were, tangled up together in the water and sunshine. In a good kind of way.
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#70. For so long, I was the one with his heart. I just need to see where it is now. - Quinn
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