Top 40 Jessica Brody Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “Telling people what they want to hear is not the same thing as winning.”

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3. “Any system, if left unattended or isolated, will eventually result in entropy. Or chaos.”

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4. “Only miss the sun when it starts to snow Only know you love her when you let her go. – “Let Her Go” by Passenger.”

— Jessica Brody

5. “We all need to believe in something. It gives us a reason to get up in the morning. Something to fight for.”

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6. “Tomorrow I will be whole again. I will be strong. I will be me. If only I knew who that was.”

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7. “Everybody knows the memories that really matter don’t live in the mind.”

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8. “Thirteen is hard. You don’t know who you are yet. Who your real friends are. Who you can trust. You don’t yet know what you are capable of.”

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9. “Plot, structure, and character transformation. Or what I like to call the “Holy Trinity of Story.” All together, these three elements are pure storytelling pixie dust. The three essential building blocks of every great story ever told.”

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10. “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.”

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11. “What if life is unpredictable? What if people leve for nu reason? What if losing is just another part of life? What if the universe can’t be controlled? What if chaos is good? What if some questions can never be answered? What if that’s okay?”

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12. “It happens all the time. Sometimes the most obvious choices are the hardest to see.”

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13. “A small shift in perspective and everything falls into place.”

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14. “I’m sugar and spice and all things nice. And look how well that’s turned out for me so far.”

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15. “This is what will remain unforgotten.”

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16. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

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17. “One. Two. Three. Blink.”

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18. “It’s like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them.”

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19. “When my phone chimes with a text message on Monday morning, I’m still in that dreamy state between sleep and awake where you can pretty much convince yourself of anything. Like that a teen Mick Jagger is waiting in your driveway to take you to school. Or that your favorite book series ended with an actual satisfying conclusion, instead of what the author tried to pass off as a satisfying conclusion.”

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20. “The truth is, we are never just one thing. We all have many titles and labels, but far too often, we get trapped inside a single definition. We get so lost in it that we forget about all the other pieces that make up who we are.”

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21. “He has an Android operating system and you have Apple. It’s a compatibility issue. You’ll never get along. You may as well just end it now.”

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22. “We can only fix our own life. We cannot play the role of Gods in someone else’s.”

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23. “In just one night, a new dandelion has managed to sprout up in place of the one I destroyed. It’s a strong weed. A rebellious fighter.”

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24. “No hay mat que por bien no venga – there is no bad that doesn’t come with good.”

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25. “The English language has over one million words in it, and none of them are good enough for Lottie. None of them will capture what I saw when I looked at her. What I see now when I remember her. How she will forever look through my filtered view of the world.”

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26. “Tristan was the soundtrack of my summer. The beat I walked to. The melody I breathed in and out. The lyrics I lived by.”

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27. “Grief changes the way you see things forever. Because it changes you forever.”

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28. “And I hear music. The kind you can dance to. The kind that drowns out the rest of the world. Because when you find what you’re looking for – when you finally get it right – everything else is just noise.”

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29. “The truth is, we are never just one thing. We all have many titles and many labels, but far too often, we get trapped inside a single definition. The Teacher’s Pet, the Rule Follower, the Cheerleader, the Athlete, the Princess, the Basket Case, the Criminal... the Rock Star’s Girlfriend. Whether we wrote that definition or it was given to us, it somehow becomes our only identity. We get so lost in it that we forget about all the other pieces that make up who we are.”

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30. “The eyes-the thousands of wandering, questioning, reproving eyes-they are all around us. They penetrate my clothes. They rip at my skin. They dour me.”

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31. “I don’t know. I guess I’d just like to see you live one day for yourself.”

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32. “Or at the very least, you’ll remember that there once was a moment. And that it was perfect.”

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33. “We take one step towards the edge, and then, together, we leap.”

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34. “I kiss him so hard, it’s as though I’m trying to extract the very life out of him and unite it with mine.”

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35. “Have you ever noticed how many worlds there are out there? Infinite. An infinite number of worlds. And they all function separately from each other. Like unrelated specks of dirt floating in the air. Sometimes two specks will collide, momentarily affecting each other, but most of the time they just keep on floating, completely unaware that any other specks exist.”

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36. “High school is the worst.”

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37. “You just don’t get it, do you? You don’t have to do this. Any of this. You don’t have to be someone else. He should like you for who you already are.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “If something you did causes failure, shouldn’t the exact opposite of what you did bring success?”

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40. “Herd mentality can defy all logic and reason.”

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41. “Imagine if Harry Potter had started out a confident, powerful wizard. Imagine if the Dursleys had been nice adoptive parents who took Harry under their wing and nourished his magical soul. What a dull first book that would have been!”

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42. “Funerals are for the living. For saying good-bye.”

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43. “In all of these Midpoint examples, you might have noticed a subtle shift from wants to needs. This is no coincidence. The third essential Midpoint element is the intersection of the A and B stories, when your hero starts to let go of what they want in lieu of figuring out what they need.”

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44. “I launch out of my seat and run to the bar at the far side of the lounge. I find an abandoned receipt and a pen and dash back over to the table... this isn’t a drawing. At least not like any drawing I’ve ever done before... This is trying to catch water from a pitcher in a thimble... This is me finally breathing life back into Lottie.”

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45. “And don’t we writers just love to manipulate?”

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46. “If the Break Into 2 was the hero figuring out how to fix things the wrong way, then the Break Into 3 is when the hero finally figures out how to fix things the right way.”

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