Top 70 Jessa Hastings Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you keep pushing someone away, eventually they’ll stay there.”

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2. “It’s the great undoing of my heart as I know it.”

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3. “In another life I reckon I could have loved you,′ I tell her. She gives me a little smile back. ‘In another life I would have let you-’ Never you mind that I already love her in this one.”

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4. “I’ll wear it like a badge of honour forever that he loved me first, that he loved me at all.”

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5. “I can feel his eyes on me, watching me, waiting for me to look up and when I do, it hurts the centre of me like it always does when our eyes catch. A fish back in water. A sore relief.”

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6. “Loving him will be my magnum opus.”

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7. “Painful things can still be beautiful things, in case you didn’t know.”

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8. “Everything wonderful, everything magical, everything painful, everything beautiful and spectacular and wretched and defining that has happened to me happened with him. And I hate him for that.”

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9. “You can love someone and not have it rule you, not have it dictate your every waking thought and decision. You can love someone and still retain your power and autonomy. You can love someone and have it just be there, a part of you, and still have a completely functional life. Even if it’s a life without them. Doesn’t sound much like any life I’m interested in, actually.”

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10. “But I love you more than I’m angry at you, so I need to figure it out.”

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11. “You’re Central Park at midnight.”

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12. “The most beautiful boy in every room, the great love of my life – how many loves do you get in a lifetime? I remember wondering that. How many people will look at me like he does, not just like I’m the sun but like I’m the whole god damn universe.”

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13. “I know that some love is beautiful, and some is freeing, some unravels you, some love poisons you, some blinds you, some betters you, and some loves break you in invisible ways that no one else knows about until you have to stand up and the weight of your love crushes your bones.”

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14. “She’s my Mecca.”

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15. “How many loves do you get in a lifetime? For me it’s just the one. I’ve had more but as I float away there’s only one I’m thinking of. He is what I’m thinking of. Not how he hurt me, not what he did to me, not what we’ve done to each other. Just him.”

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16. “I remember it, like a physical punch in the gut, how much I loved him. Really loved him. To the bone, I loved him. Cut me and I’d bleed him. How much I needed him, still need him, would forever, always, never couldn’t, even if I tried, needed him.”

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17. “It’s never just an anything with you.”

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18. “In another life i reckon i could have loved you.”

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19. “How many loves do we get in a lifetime? I really don’t know anymore – my heart’s racing so fast now and the dam is building – and there are all sorts of love in this world and mine is killing me, I think.”

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20. “Loving you was a good reason not to love anyone else.”

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21. “Because loving him is the same thing as tossing the keys to my heart to a valet without a driver’s license. He’ll drive me off a cliff.”

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22. “She pulls away from me and as she does, I slip my heart in her back pocket. That’s a lie. She already had it. But I give it to her again for good measure.”

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23. “Our eyes hold like our hands won’t. I love you, he blinks. Prove it, I sigh.”

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24. “He’s a time bomb for me, do you see now? That he’ll hurt me. He’ll always hurt me. I’ll never be safe with him, even if I’m always safe next to him.”

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25. “And it’s doesn’t sound like much, I know, but if my heartbreak was a fever, my brother is the cool cloth they’d lay on my forehead.”

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26. “He’s a time bomb for me, do you see now? That he’ll hurt me. He’ll always hurt me. I’ll never be safe with him, even if I’m always safe next to him. So, it doesn’t matter if I love him – which I don’t – but if I did, it doesn’t matter, even now. Because loving him is the same thing as tossing the keys to my heart to a valet without a driver’s license. He’ll drive me off a cliff.”

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27. “Echoes through the ancient mountains around us and the Greek philosophers who waxed lyrical about true love and soulmates roll in their graves as I try for the billionth time to sever myself from mine.”

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28. “But the truth is, when you love someone how we were in love, it didn’t matter what he’d do to me – he could have hit me with a bus, kind of he did – I innately still would have done everything I could to make him not feel what he was feeling.”

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29. “Memories are funny, don’t you think? Creep up on you, break through the ground of your mind like a weed, even when they don’t have permission to be there.”

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30. “Then the world goes to black. We lock eyes. And this sheet of impenetrable glass slides up from the ground between us. We can’t touch and we can’t talk and there’s nothing to say anyway besides him screaming through the glass that he misses me and me screaming back that I miss him too and him screaming that he’s sorry and me screaming that it’s not enough. Our faces are frozen in what feels like hopeless love but couldn’t be, because I don’t love him anymore. I cannot.”

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31. “It occurs to me somewhere in the background of my thinking – like the way the snow falls, quiet without you knowing, and then you look behind you and your entire backyard, everything you thought you knew, is blanketed all white.”

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32. “There are all sorts of loves in this world, I know that now. I don’t know it completely – it’s not a full moon of knowing just yet, maybe at best I’m at the waxing crescent of understanding what I can about love. They say it conquers all, but does it? Can it even? All is so vast.”

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33. “Over the mantelpiece she hung her own portrait up herself, that little minx. Best painting I’ve ever seen, too. Better than any woman anyone has ever painted in the history of time, a face I’d win battles for. A face I’d lose anything for. Even her. It’s time.”

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34. “This is me tossing my hat in the ring,” he tells me. “Just so you know.”

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35. “Do you believe children carry the sins of their father? Have you heard of that? Generational sins, ancestral sins – do you believe in those?”

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36. “I just never saw her coming, I couldn’t have picked loving her out of a lineup.”

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37. “She could walk all over me, strangle me to death, and I wouldn’t notice. If the emerald eyes are out then I’m dying anyway.”

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38. “And I know that he smells like a Sunday morning. Slow, easy, uncomplicated. Like fresh coffee. New towels and a light-flooded room.”

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39. “The feel of him is my favourite feeling in the world, for all of history and all of time, write it down, ring the town bell and tell the scribes – I’ll wear it on my heart’s sleeve forever that I love him.”

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40. “The great monument to our love is a withering tree and a blank stone that means the world to me and maybe nothing to anyone else.”

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41. “What are we then?” I ask defiantly, putting some distance between us which he crosses with one step anyway. He kisses my cheek. “Each other’s.”

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42. “I wish I could crawl into his lap, curl up, face in his neck, tell him about all the ways this stupid boy broke my heart a few weeks ago, but I can’t because it’s him.”

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43. “I roll my eyes at him, walk away and ahead, try to chase after that stupid heart of mine that’s riding off into the sunset with a boy who doesn’t like me like that.”

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44. “He is the drain in the centre of me where all the happy things fall through and that I feel his absence in everything.”

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45. “Isn’t it funny how pain and sadness can be forgotten for fleeting moments? Your brain gets a tiny bit distracted and it offers you the briefest moment of reprieve. The problem with those reprieves is that they aren’t real, and reality comes hurtling back. And then you have to remember all over again that your dad is dead.”

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46. “What?” Henry shrugs. “Like, it’s ironic. Because BJ went home with the Anti-Parks, and Parks went home with the BJ deluxe.”

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47. “There’s not much I wouldn’t give just to have her next to me in it all, anything, really. Just not her life, and I’m pretty sure that’s the going rate.”

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48. “He’s the moon, and I’m the tides.”

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49. “I love you, he blinks. Prove it, I sigh.”

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50. “It happens because people are careless and callous and casual with hearts and emotions, and those people are dangerous to be involved with and so even if you love them, you shouldn’t love them because nothing is worth feeling how he made me feel, and there was no guaranteeing.”

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