Jessica > Jessica's Quotes

“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, The Karma Club

“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, The Karma Club

“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 Karma Club

“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, The Karma Club

“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, The Karma Club

“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, The Karma Club

“you cannot obtain balance by also seeking imbalance.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“Car pour dire la vérité, je n'étais pas une super-héroïne. Je ne savais pas voler. J'étais incapable de tisser des toiles sophistiquées pour grimper aux murs. Je ne pouvais pas enjamber d'un bond des gratte-ciel. Je n'étais qu'une fille ordinaire qui essayait de changer un tant soit peu l'ordre des choses.”
― Jessica Brody, The Fidelity Files

“The memories that really matter don't live in the mind.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“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, Unremembered

“Trust your heart."..."It's the only thing that will never lie to you.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“Death is not a memory you can fake.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“Circumstances cannot change how you feel. When you truly love someone – on a level that goes deeper than your mind, deeper than your memories, all the way to the very thing that makes you human – you do whatever it takes. You save him.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“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, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“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, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“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, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“Aren’t universal transmissions supposed to be pure and uncorrupted?”
― Jessica Brody, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“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, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“Make wise choices with your life because the rest of the world certainly isn't going to do it for you.”
― Jessica Brody, My Life Undecided

“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, My Life Undecided

“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, My Life Undecided

“It's like I'm caught between two versions of myself. The person I used to be and the person i'm too scared to become. I feel like I'm looking in a mirror and my reflection doesn't match. I just want to be myself again. Only I'm not sure who that is anymore. Is it the girl in the mirror, the one I've struggled to be my entire life? Or is it this stranger living inside me who wants nothing to do with her? How do you decide between them? How do you know which one is really you?”
― Jessica Brody, My Life Undecided

“Perceptions are key. Your representation to society dictates what people think of you.”
― Jessica Brody, My Life Undecided