Jessica Brody Quotes & Sayings

I am no longer hesitant.
I am ready.
I am fearless. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

We take one step towards the edge, and then, together, we leap. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

Or at the very least, you'll remember that there once was a moment. And that it was perfect. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

Make wise choices with your life because the rest of the world certainly isn't going to do it for you. — Jessica Brody

Trust your heart." ... "It's the only thing that will never lie to you. — Jessica Brody

But not only did you seek to achieve balance in your life but you also sought to achieve imbalance in someone else's. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

What does it feel like?"
"It feels like ... " I begin hesitantly, " ... falling from the sky."
As I suspected, confusion registers on Kaelen's face.
"Thrilling and terrifying at the same time," I add.
Kaelen ponders for a while. "Falling from the sky equals death."
I bite my lip to keep from laughing. "Only if there's a ground underneath you," I counter.
"There is."
I shrug. "But what if there wasn't? What if you simply fell forever? Never knowing if there was a ground beneath you or not."
"It's not possible," Kaelen rationalizes. "Unless you were falling in a vacuum."
I smile. "So maybe that's what love is. Falling in a vacuum. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

The memories that really matter don't live in the mind. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

Telling people what they want to hear is not the same thing as winning — Jessica Brody

It's like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them. — Jessica Brody

If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings. — Jessica Brody

There are always two sides to everything. Where there is bad, there is also good. — Jessica Brody

But there's nothing.
My life is one big meaningless cycle of nothingness. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

The truth is, we are never just one thing. We all have many titles and many labels, but far too often, we get trapped inside a single definition. The Teacher's Pet, the Rule Follower, the Cheerleader, the Athlete, the Princess, the Basket Case, the Criminal... the Rock Star's Girlfriend. Whether we wrote that definition or it was given to us, it somehow becomes our only identity. We get so lost in it that we forget about all the other pieces that make up who we are. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

At least the water can wash away my tears. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

Mr. Briggs's chemistry class — Jessica Brody

And I fall, fall, fall.
Into the infinite white. — Jessica Brody

A small shift in perspective and everything falls into place — Jessica Brody

I don't know. I guess I'd just like to see you live one day for yourself. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

One. Two. Three. Blink. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

Life is messy for the rest of us. You have it really good here, you know? Promise me you won't forget that. — Jessica Brody

High school is the worst. — Jessica Brody

When you fail, fail, and then find your 'No' in life, your Next Opportunity. When you find your next opportunity, say:
Yes ... always yes. — Jessica Brody

I mean, how sad is it that I needed a freaking Facebook profile to tell me my boyfriend was no longer my boyfriend? As if Facebook is the official record keeper of relationships and you have to confirm all breakups and hookups with this sacred online registrar before you can consider them certified and approved. — Jessica Brody

Tomorrow I will be whole again. I will be strong. I will be me. If only I knew who that was. — Jessica Brody

If something you did causes failure, shouldn't the exact opposite of what you did bring success? — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

When my phone chimes with a text message on Monday morning, I'm still in that dreamy state between sleep and awake where you can pretty much convince yourself of anything. Like that a teen Mick Jagger is waiting in your driveway to take you to school. Or that your favorite book series ended with an actual satisfying conclusion, instead of what the author tried to pass off as a satisfying conclusion. — Jessica Brody

This is what will remain unforgotten — Jessica Brody

Tristan was the soundtrack of my summer. The beat I walked to. The melody I breathed in and out. The lyrics I lived by. — Jessica Brody

We all need to believe in something. It gives us a reason to get up in the morning. Something to fight for. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

Death is not a memory you can fake. — Jessica Brody

My mom tries to comfort me by saying that girls like Heather Campbell tend to peak early in life and then quickly fade. That's why she looks so much better than everyone now. But by the time I go to my ten-year reunion, I'll be way prettier than she is. To which I always reply with the same statement, "I don't want to be pretty in ten years. I want to be pretty now."
Because what good is it to me now that I might or might not be drop-dead gorgeous when I'm twenty-seven? It's not like I can go to school every day with a big cardboard sign around my neck that says, "Trust me, in ten years, I'll look like this." And then an arrow pointing to a picture of a supermodel. — Jessica Brody

I feel a normal temperature,' I reply, slightly — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

It happens all the time. Sometimes the most obvious choices are the hardest to see. — Jessica Brody

I'm so tired of crying.
I'm so tired of losing.
I'm just so tired. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody

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. — Jessica Brody