Top 50 Jessi Kirby Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.”

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2. “I’ve got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold.”

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3. “There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those.” – Michael Nolan.”

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4. “Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you’re alive.”

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5. “One often meets her destiny on the road she takes to avoid it.”

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6. “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.”

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7. “I can’t go back. just like with everything else in my life. All I can do at this point is keep going forward. So I do.”

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8. “We’re all more than the person we show to everyone else.”

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9. “Every choice has the power to affect your life later on in ways you can’t go back and change.”

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10. “Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn’t realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It’s also what life is made of. It’s all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.”

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11. “But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it’s happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it’s scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it’s worth it.”

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12. “Today feels different because yesterday was different.”

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

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14. “Today the wind and I burst through the double doors together, and it carries me like someone who’s going places, because now it’s official. I am.”

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15. “All our firsts, and our lasts, and everything in between. They swirl and dance on the invisible currents, and then one by one, they disappear to a place they will always be a part of.”

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16. “I’d give anything right now to go back, even just for a few moments, so I could pay more attention. Inscribe every detail of him, and of us together, onto my heart, where I could keep it safe always. Where even time couldn’t erase it.”

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17. “Because when these tiny little things are afraid, they shine.”

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18. “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?”

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19. “We are made of our pasts, and our pains, our joys and our losses. It’s in the very fiber of our beings. Written on our hearts.”

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20. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

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21. “I had a good day. For the first time in a very long time, I really did, which is why I almost don’t want to wash it away tonight. I like the feel of the salt and the sand on my skin, like a reminder that there is a whole world that’s alive and continuing on out there. And that today I was a part of it again.”

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

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23. “We walk around carrying invisible weights, and doing our best to look like everything is okay even when it may not be.”

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24. “Our first kiss was soft, sweet. A question on my lips. He tasted like the watermelon bubble gum he was always chewing, and the stolen summer night.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “Little victories, they’re the ones that counts.”

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27. “Let him be a part of who you are – your first love, your memories, your past. But let him go. You have to so that you can be here now.”

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28. “It’s the worst feeling in the world to think that everyone who knows you has what they think is a good enough reason to lie to you.”

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29. “It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you’ll always remember, aren’t the ones you can force, or go looking for. I’ve always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.”

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30. “But it’s terrifying to realise how much of your world is wrapped up in loving another person.”

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31. “A thousand fireworks explode inside me, and I feel them in him too, in his lips on mine, and his hands in my hair, and he way we pull each other closer. Everything else falls away, and in this moment, when we touch, we are light.”

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32. “That’s the best part. The how.”

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33. “Each heartbeat begins with a single, electrical impulse, or “spark.” The distinctive sound we hear through a stethoscope, or when we place our head on a loved one’s chest, is the sound of the heart valves opening and closing in perfect synchronicity with each other. It is a two-party rhythm – a delicate dance of systole and diastole, which propels the heart’s electrically charged particles through its chambers roughly every second of the day, every day of our lives.”

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34. “But almost moments don’t count, and it all comes down to the choices I could’ve made but didn’t.”

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35. “Quinn, I... ” He whispers the words, unfinished, into my mouth as the space between us disappears and our lips finally touch. A thousand fireworks explode inside me, and I feel them in him too, in his lips on mine, and his hands in my hairm and the way we pull each other closer.”

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36. “For so long, I was the one with his heart. I just need to see where it is now.” – Quinn.”

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37. “She has no idea how careless I’ve already been, or that I know that heart of his maybe even better than he does.”

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38. “You’re okay,” she says. “It’s just your first time back out here. You don’t need to go back.”

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39. “A ship is safe in harbour, but that is not what ships are meant for”. This is what they’re meant for, this feeling right here. And maybe... maybe it’s what hearts are meant for too.”

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40. “There’s motion, like taking action or moving forward. There’s evolution-that’s growing or changing with life. And then there’s illumination, which is understanding or knowing.”

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41. “Little things become big things when your body has been broken.”

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42. “Do what I tell you, when I tell you, and the worst thing that’ll happen is you’ll fall in love.”

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43. “Questions are dangerous territory for us.”

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44. “Nothing like a little brush with death to remind you you’re alive.”

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45. “You can’t be sorry for something you had no control over.”

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46. “She has that kind of manic focus about her, like if she just keeps moving, the things she’s upset about can’t catch her.”

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47. “It’s too much, this. Life, and love, and how fragile it all is.”

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48. “I spent the first few months under the full weight of those regrets, thinking of a thousand different things I would’ve done differently had I known they were going to be the last.”

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49. “We didn’t say anything as we ducked though the bushes and when we stood next to the car I could tell he was searching, maybe for the right thing to say. But there wasn’t any right thing.”

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50. “Beginnings are magical.”

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