Jessi Kirby Quotes

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

That's the best part. The how.

We're all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there's more to me than that. I just haven't had the chance yet to show it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.