Top 55 Jessica Brody Quotes
#1. It's like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them.
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#2. We all need to believe in something. It gives us a reason to get up in the morning. Something to fight for.
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#3. I'm not brainwashed." I wish everyone would stop using that word to describe me.
"That's exactly what someone who's been brainwashed would say.
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#4. We take one step towards the edge, and then, together, we leap.
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#5. People can be so annoying sometimes. With all their stupid opinions and hidden agendas. But dogs? Dogs don't have any agendas. They're as honest and open and devoted as you can get. And that's why they'll always cheer you up. They'll always love you. No matter how badly you screw up.
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#6. The guy you're really supposed to be with can be standing right in front of you and you don't even notice because you're too distracted by the one you think you're supposed to be with.
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#7. Tomorrow I will be whole again. I will be strong. I will be me. If only I knew who that was.
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#8. There are always two sides to everything. Where there is bad, there is also good.
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#9. Make wise choices with your life because the rest of the world certainly isn't going to do it for you.
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#10. Mistakes can be fixed. Bad decisions can be undone. Model houses can be rebuilt. And perfection is only a word that makes you feel bad about yourself.
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#11. It happens all the time. Sometimes the most obvious choices are the hardest to see.
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#12. The eyes-the thousands of wandering, questioning, reproving eyes-they are all around us. They penetrate my clothes. They rip at my skin. They dour me.
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#13. Because apart we might be as different as night and day, black and white, right and wrong, but together we create two sides of a whole. Together we balance.
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#14. But there's nothing.
My life is one big meaningless cycle of nothingness.
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#16. The universe has a place and purpose for everything and everyone. sometimes we cannot know what that place is. or what the purpose of everything that happens to us will be. that is why we must allow the natural order of things to occur.
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#17. All human beings have control over their own destiny. that is, after all, our purpose on this planet. not to interfere with the lives of others but to shape our own experiences.
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#18. I can't help to feel like they're staring at me, too. Judging me. Deeming me not good enough. Not pretty enough. Not cool enough.
And to be honest, sometimes I wonder if they're right.
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#19. And I fall, fall, fall.
Into the infinite white.
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#20. I turn and look at Hunter, whose face is one giant question mark. "I've made a mistake," I try to explain to him. "I said yes to you for the wrong reasons and I'm sorry. I really am.
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#21. In just one night, a new dandelion has managed to sprout up in place of the one I destroyed. It's a strong weed. A rebellious fighter.
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#22. I sit in the rocking chair and sway back and forth. The movement calms me. The range of motion is limited. Confined. It fits in a box.
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#23. New languages are not something you can pick up overnight. They take time. Patience. The willingness to change the way you think about what you already know.
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#24. He didn't love me," I murmur to the dirt. "I was just a means to an end."
Klo's grasp slips from my arm and I feel the blood rushing back to my fingers.Anger flashes on his face but it's quickly replaced by a sad, withering smile. "That's the most cowardly thing you've said yet.
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#26. A small shift in perspective and everything falls into place
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#27. My mouth starts watering and a gurgle emanates from my stomach. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I haven't eaten since ... well, since 1609.
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#28. Or at the very least, you'll remember that there once was a moment. And that it was perfect.
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#29. I am no longer hesitant.
I am ready.
I am fearless.
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#31. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.
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#32. We're going to go to something called a restaurant.Cody explains from the back seat of the car that it's what people do when they don't want to cook at home. Or when they want better food than what their mother can make.
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#33. Life is messy for the rest of us. You have it really good here, you know? Promise me you won't forget that.
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#34. Thirteen is hard. You don't know who you are yet. Who your real friends are. Who you can trust. You don't yet know what you are capable of.
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#36. When you fail, fail, and then find your 'No' in life, your Next Opportunity. When you find your next opportunity, say:
Yes ... always yes.
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#37. we must follow our own path, and sometimes that path can be laden with bumps and curves and rivers to cross. but we cannot block the paths of our neighbors, for that is not our place. we can only seek to groom and shape our own.
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#38. You just don't get it, do you? You don't have to do this. Any of this. You don't have to be someone else. He should like you for who you already are.
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#39. If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.
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#41. The memories that really matter don't live in the mind.
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#42. Trust your heart." ... "It's the only thing that will never lie to you.
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#43. I don't know. I guess I'd just like to see you live one day for yourself.
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#44. But not only did you seek to achieve balance in your life but you also sought to achieve imbalance in someone else's.
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#46. Telling people what they want to hear is not the same thing as winning
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#47. And for the last ten or so years of my life, whenever my father was in the house, I've learned how to make myself scarce.
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#48. And Cody?"
"Yeah?"
"Bring your laptop too. I need help finding a top-secret compound."
I hear him laughing quietly and I can picture him rolling his eyes as he mumbles to himself,"I should have just stayed at science camp.
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#49. I'm so tired of crying.
I'm so tired of losing.
I'm just so tired.
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#50. Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.
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#51. I feel a normal temperature,' I reply, slightly
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#52. If something you did causes failure, shouldn't the exact opposite of what you did bring success?
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#53. I kiss him so hard, it's as though I'm trying to extract the very life out of him and unite it with mine.
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#54. Tristan was the soundtrack of my summer. The beat I walked to. The melody I breathed in and out. The lyrics I lived by.
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#55. Touche.
What does that mean? Jasper raises his eyebrows quizzically.
It means you're right.
Jasper rolls his eyes. Of course I'm touche. I'm always touche.
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