Jessi Kirby Quotes & Sayings

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

Finn told me once, as we sat on the porch watching the sun go down, that one thing he remembered our mom telling him was that life sometimes gives you a tiny moment of peace when you need it most. And that you had to be careful and look out for it or you'd miss it. He'd said it just as the last sliver of the sun dipped below the horizon, leaving a flaming pick summer sky behind. We sat quiet in the still heat, and I'd thought I understood what he meant then, because it felt so good and safe to be sitting there with him next to me. Now though, I understood it with a depth that made me want to laugh and cry at the same time, and I wished more than anything I could tell him. — Jessi Kirby

Do what I tell you, when I tell you, and the worst thing that'll happen is you'll fall in love. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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? — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

When he saw Tyler, his face went serious, which struck me as comical. Andy had always been protective, but when it came to me having anything to do with guys, he felt it was his duty to inform and protect me from the ones he thought were most like himself. When I turned thirteen, he pulled me aside and we had his version of 'the talk,' which mostly consisted of a bunch of 'uhs' and 'ums,' but I got the gist of his speech: boys only wanted one thing, and I shouldn't give it to them until I was at least thirty-three. And married. — Jessi Kirby

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

For so long, I was the one with his heart. I just need to see where it is now. - Quinn — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

Suspended as we were, with no horizon line or landscape or anything else to draw a separation between the water and the sky, I pictured us up there with the stars. Another story written in tiny lights. We were a constellation put in the sky
two people holding hands, floating peacefully above everything else, in a beautiful, perfect moment. — Jessi Kirby

In three words I can sum up all that I've learned about: It goes on. — Jessi Kirby

Each heartbeat begins with a single, electrical impulse, or "spark." The distinctive sound we hear through a stethoscope, or when we place our head on a loved one's chest, is the sound of the heart valves opening and closing in perfect synchronicity with each other. It is a two-party rhythm - a delicate dance of systole and diastole, which propels the heart's electrically charged particles through its chambers roughly every second of the day, every day of our lives. — Jessi Kirby

It's terrifying to realize how much of your world is wrapped around loving another person. — Jessi Kirby

One often meets her destiny on the road she takes to avoid it. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

Questions are dangerous territory for us. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

We found our own synchronicity together, his heart thumping out a slow. steady beat and mine filling in the spaces between — Jessi Kirby

I opened my mouth to respond, then decided to do that thing where you think before you speak. — Jessi Kirby

It's not actually making the choice that take courage. It's facing it afterward. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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? — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

It's too much, this. Life, and love, and how fragile it all is. — Jessi Kirby

She has no idea how careless I've already been, or that I know that heart of his maybe even better than he does. — Jessi Kirby

Every choice has the power to affect your life later on in ways you can't go back and change. — Jessi Kirby

I had a feeling she probably made friends with people pretty easily, and that could be a good thing for me too, since I'd always been a little on the reserved side. She probably had offended a lot of people too, but maybe they all just overlooked it, as i was finding it surprisingly easy to do. She seemed genuinely oblivious to the fact that anything she said could be potentially insulting, and for some reason that made it kind of forgivable. — Jessi Kirby

Wyatt squeezed my hand, and it was light enough now that I could see his free hand pointing to a tree silhouetted against the pale morning sky, one tiny star barely visible above it. I blinked and it was gone. The others dissolved into the morning almost as quickly and were replaced by a cloudless swath of pale sky, tinged blue around the edges. Above the surface, it might have been a moment where I glanced over at Wyatt and he understood. He would've maybe even leaned in and kissed it softly into my memory. It might have made me feel less lonely and lost. But beneath the water, we didn't move and we didn't speak, and my moment of peace faded slowly into the blue around us. — Jessi Kirby

Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine ... none of them had mothers."
I was still wasn't following, but she continued, obviously excited.
"When I was little, I used to think that meant that life had to make it up to them, for taking their mothers away, and so that's why they ended up having the whole fairy-tale happily-ever-after magic happen to them. The deserved it more than other girls." She looked at me intently. "Life will make it up to you, Anna. — Jessi Kirby

I closed my eyes and listened to the occasional chirps of tiny birds hidden in the trees around us, the bubbling of water over rocks down below, cicadas rattling a chorus off in the distance. All sounds of the world carrying on like it always had. So much could change or be lost, and still, the rest of the world went on like it was nothing. It didn't seem wrong, but it didn't seem right either. I'd gone on today like it was nothing. I'd laughed and felt happy and forgotten for a little while that this was now a world without my brother in it. — Jessi Kirby

I had a good day. For the first time in a very long time, I really did, which is why I almost don't want to wash it away tonight. I like the feel of the salt and the sand on my skin, like a reminder that there is a whole world that's alive and continuing on out there. And that today I was a part of it again. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

Sometimes ... a person is up against more than they can handle. And sometimes a person loses, no matter what they're fighting for. — Jessi Kirby

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 — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

Taking a chance can be worth a lot more than you know. — Jessi Kirby

Beginnings are magical. — Jessi Kirby

He always told me to look strong even if I didn't feel it, because sometimes that's all you can do. — Jessi Kirby

That's what seems the most sad to me - that neither of them even think there's a possibility they can be together. — Jessi Kirby

Their parents buried empty coffins — Jessi Kirby

It's easy to forget to look up when all you do is focus on the road straight ahead. — Jessi Kirby

Little victories, they're the ones that counts. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. — Jessi Kirby

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive. — Jessi Kirby

After a minute I leaned back, elbows on the table, and looked up for the twinkle of the first star in the evening sky. When we were little, it was a ritual Finn and I did on the front porch. He'd make his wish silently, and I would too, but I never could keep a secret; and I'd tell him what I wished every time. He'd always tell me it wouldn't come true, but I didn't believe him. I'd had plenty of them come true, from a new box of crayons showing up out of nowhere to a bag of candy left on my bed. It had been a while, though, and the only thing I'd wish for now was impossible. I found the first star in a patch of burnt-orange sky, above the crinkly purple mountains in the distance, and then I wished my brother back anyway. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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... — Jessi Kirby

The real measure of how passionate she is about something is whether she invokes an f-bomb. — Jessi Kirby

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

Anna: Ash, I don't have anything planned with my Mother ... She's dead.
Ashley: What?
Anna: She died when I was seven. She drowned. It's just my Dad and me. I didn't tell you before because I just wanted a fresh start here, because before I moved, everybody knew about it and ... I'm sorry.
Ashley: ... You're like a Disney Princess! — Jessi Kirby

But almost moments don't count, and it all comes down to the choices I could've made but didn't. — Jessi Kirby

But it's terrifying to realise how much of your world is wrapped up in loving another person — Jessi Kirby

A moment was all it took to change everything. — Jessi Kirby

How many people have gotten older and forgotten about the things they hoped for and dreamed about when they were young? Or given up without ever taking a chance, or settled in life because it's easier, or they're scared, or whatever other excuses? How many people need a reminder of who they once were? — Jessi Kirby

I don't know what comes next. I can't know, until I've walked the road I've chosen. I slow at the thought. I don't have a plan, and there is no map for this. It's terrifying, but there's a spark of exhilaration that gives me hope that the choice I just made could turn out to be the right and this feels infinitely better than the weight of regret. — Jessi Kirby

You're okay," she says. "It's just your first time back out here. You don't need to go back. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

You know ... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it. — Jessi Kirby

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? — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both. — Jessi Kirby

I can't say I wasn't hoping for it, but I didn't see it coming. — Jessi Kirby

Some things need to be said. And sometimes they require strong words. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

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. — Jessi Kirby

Today feels different because yesterday was different. — Jessi Kirby

That's the best part. The how. — Jessi Kirby

Because when these tiny little things are afraid, they shine. — Jessi Kirby