Top 180 Jessa Hastings Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Our eyes catch, and there’s that strange new warmth again that’s so unfamiliar and so welcome, all at once. It’s to not feel alone in the world, I think – the world can feel so lonely sometimes. Most of the time, I suppose.”

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102. “I think it’s just that how much I love him mattered more.”

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103. “That God that my mom thinks she serves – he’s so much smaller than who I think the real one is. The real one – to me, he’s everywhere, in everything. And sure, maybe he speaks through the Bible. But also maybe he speaks through Narnia, and Harry Potter despite J. K. Rowling lately, and the trees, and science, and the stars, and black holes and the ocean and the way the sky looks sometimes, and you can feel it in your chest.”

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104. “It’s the worst realization I’ve ever come to: how many people you’re surrounded by has absolutely no correlation at all to how alone you really are.”

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105. “I can’t control how you see me, but I can control how I will be seen.”

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106. “Touching Parks is like touching no one else. It’s like coming home.”

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107. “Conscious feelings are present on the surface, and you make decisions around them, but subconscious feelings exist under the surface, and they dictate your decisions too, arguably even more so, but often you only realize that in retrospect.”

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108. “He’s the only man I’ve ever grieved the loss of, the only love I’ve ever loved.”

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109. “I love her. That’s it for me. That’s all there is. I love her.”

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110. “I’ve never felt like this and it’s now, right now, this exact second that I realise I am in love with Daisy Haites. And then it is immediately after, in that exact second, that I realise I’ve lost her.”

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111. “You want a metaphor for it? Alright, here goes. I come from a good family, everyone knows that. My parents were great, roof over my head. I never wanted for much, really, and still. She’s the only home I’ve ever been interested in having. Her body is the walls, heart’s the ceiling. I’ll live here forever.”

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112. “The universe, actually, is ablaze. The planets lose track of their orbits, the birds are poets now and all the songs written before this and all the ones that’ll come after this are about this moment.”

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113. “I love him. He’s all I want. He’s all I think about. Everything I didn’t want or believe about love, I want and believe in it with him. And loving him has undone me wide open. But if time has taught me anything it’s that loving anyone when my brother is who he is, is a mistake.”

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114. “We were just babies, really. Doing grown-up things with hearts the size of Texas and a lust as deep as the Mariana Trench.”

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115. “I kiss the corner of her mouth, walk out her door and then we don’t speak for ten months.”

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116. “You know how ballerinas pick a spot to look at when they’re doing a pirouette so they don’t get dizzy? Bridget was Magnolia’s spot on the wall.”

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117. “His kisses are commas.”

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118. “I love watching her do nothing, love how she moves especially when she knows I’m watching, which she does now.”

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119. “Sitting next to him saying nothing feels like taking off a corset. A great undoing, if you will, and he will. In every way.”

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120. “I look over at her more tenderly than I should, feel an old kind of missing her in my chest that I wish would just die but it can’t seem to take its last breath. Every time it takes one it takes another and another, and it’s never a last breath. Loving her like this is a kind of breathing that feels like dying.”

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121. “But you see, the thing about stars is that in another galaxy, that star is also a sun. “If it wasn’t him, it would be you.”

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122. “People who aren’t self-aware, people who haven’t lived their lives in the pursuit of truth, find that the truth is confronting if you don’t want to hear it. I think I represent to her a myriad of uncomfortable truths she just can’t afford to lean into, because her whole life depends so heavily on a false reality. People don’t tend to want those ruptured.”

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123. “I’ll miss him on my rainy days.”

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124. “We’re fated Woven into the tapestry of the universe, my name right next to hers. We’re in the stars.”

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125. “She squints over at me. “Did you really do that for me or is this just a merry coincidence?” “You know what, Tiges, I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve fallen into the ranks of men who find that there’s very little that they wouldn’t do for you.”

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126. “So maybe it’s the cosmicness of it, or maybe it’s the way his mouth feels against mine-like some sort of soul resuscitation, like Sam Penny is a heart-stretch put on the planet to reinstill faith back into mankind so we have something worthwhile to write the poems about.”

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127. “My whole childhood is littered with memories of being alone and lonely and abandoned and disregarded in our family, and the only part that makes it feel okay is that Bridget was there with me. Through all the ways our parents failed us, my sister did not. My sister is the lace trimming around all of it.”

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128. “He will be nothing to me even though he’s everything.”

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129. “I’m not one of those men who’s stressed about leaving my mark on the world – the world went on fine before I was part of it, it’ll keep being fine after I’m gone.”

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130. “I’ve got to ricochet the disaster of what we’ve become off of the glimmering light of what we were and land it in what we could be again. Both eyes closed, one hand behind my back.”

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131. “Will you walk me down the aisle?” I ask him. “At the wedding?” He looks down at me and smiles a bit. “Honour of a lifetime.”

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132. “The curves of his chest carved into my memory the same way you won’t ever forget your best day. He is my best day.”

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133. “I think it’s because he’s worried about me and having him worry about me is5 one of my favourite feelings. It’s indicative of how he cares about me, and that’s still not not novel yet.”

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134. “So Daisy’s just what I think about now, that’s who I’ve become.”

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135. “I don’t want to let her go – I didn’t even want to love her in the first place, but here we are and I do, and I wouldn’t take it back now. Couldn’t. Even if I could, I couldn’t, because I’ll love her till I die. Whether I have her or not, whether she wants me back or not, I’m in, even if she’s out.”

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136. “I can feel myself drifting further and further from a safe harbor, though, and I should have tethered myself to something, but I didn’t. I can feel it now, Me tethered to him – kind of terrified, kind of awed and I wonder if maybe he’s tethered to me too.”

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137. “I’d never stop grieving that boy.”

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138. “Like, just – everything.”

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139. “That’s Julian Haites. I couldn’t break his heart if I hit it with a sledgehammer.” “Baby girl – ” Gus gives me a look. “You are the sledgehammer.”

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140. “I don’t like to share,” he says, inspecting his dagger before pocketing it again. “Share what?” I cross my arms again. He frowns at me. “You.”

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141. “Baby Haites.” He laughs, shaking his head. “My little wallflower.” My. I swallow heavy.”

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142. “Daisy for me was a complete trip – I accidentally fell in love with her, and I accidentally lost her. I wasn’t ready for it. I wasn’t ready to love someone how it turns out I love her.”

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143. “You are the thing that the poets write about, you are what the choir of angels is singing about, you are the thing that clouds part above and the sun beams down upon. You’re every butterfly, in every stomach. You’re my every tender thought.”

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144. “I remember the first time I made her smile. It felt like such a worthwhile pursuit when I was a kid. Still feels like a worthwhile pursuit now.”

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145. “I remember how heavy he was on top of me. I equated that feeling with safety for the longest time. Him lying on me like the best quilt.”

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146. “Terrible days are sneaks, aren’t they? They love to lull you into a false sense of safety. Dress themselves up in the terrible mundane, make you think that everything’s okay when actually, nothing is.”

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147. “I touch a stone and for the briefest of moments genuinely wonder whether I’ll fall through it like in Outlander. I don’t.”

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148. “It’s raining leaves and smells like smoldering logs and cinnamon, and Jamison Hook blends right in because something about him feels like when you’ve walked inside after being caught in the rain and a fire’s already lit.”

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149. “Rummage through the drawer in my mind as fast as I can to find the words to tell her that I’m coming for her, I’m on my way back, that this is just the long way home.”

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150. “It was always him. I knew that, even at the time, even when I tried to fill the gap he left in me with other people, it was and always will be him.”

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