Top 40 Jessica Gadziala Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Anxiety causes a physical reaction that causes endless symptoms in the physical body that you literally can not control.”

— Jessica Gadziala

2. “And I guess, at the end of the day, when you fall in love with a bad boy, you can’t really be mad when they end up doing bad things to you.”

— Jessica Gadziala

3. “Ah, yeah, I’m gonna have to hop on the Nope train to Fuckthatville on that one.”

— Jessica Gadziala

4. “I hope one day, darling, that you will know the touch of a man who loves you. I pray you will know how wonderful that is. How rare and beautiful. How godly. Even if it isn’t within the union of marriage. It isn’t wrong. Nothing is more right.”

— Jessica Gadziala

5. “Our souls spoke in the same language- the language only women can fully understand, babe.”

— Jessica Gadziala

6. “Dying of tetanus might be preferable to spending any more time in your company...”

— Jessica Gadziala

7. “He got what?” “That you’re mine.”

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8. “And when you were naked, wet, and ready, and a hot man ‘come hither’d’ you, you hithered, damnit.”

— Jessica Gadziala

9. “Anyone who has ever been in love, truly, magnificently in love, knows that it is torture. It is ugly and messy and brings out the absolute worst along with the best in you. It hurts because it forces you to confront every aspect of yourself. It forces you out of your comfort zone.”

— Jessica Gadziala

10. “But, yes, I’m hungry.” “Well, there’s an Olive Garden next door.” My face twisted up. “An olive garden? Like... we go and pick olives? I mean, I’m going to need more sustenance than that. What’s so funny?”

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11. “As odd as it may have been to think, being around him was a lot like a warm hug on a bad day, a steaming cup of hot chocolate on a rainy night, half a dozen blankets when you want to hide from the world. He.”

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12. “It’s not the things that we did impulsively, without thought, without consideration of consequences that we end up regretting. It’s the things we didn’t do, the chances we didn’t take, the men we didn’t kiss, the love we didn’t give.”

— Jessica Gadziala

13. “Every woman is a hallway full of locked doors under different names: past, future, hopes, fears, lust, and love. Some men come with keys. Some men come with lick picks. Byron St. James comes with a chainsaw.”

— Jessica Gadziala

14. “What good does wallowing do?” I shrugged. “I mean there is science to this kind of thing. The actual pain of it only lasts a really short time. It’s the obsessive wondering and what-if’ing and mourning for your loss that makes you shrivel up in a ball for weeks or months. I have nothing to wonder or what-if or mourn. He didn’t love me enough. Case closed. Someday someone will. Or maybe some day a dozen or so cats will. Whatever.”

— Jessica Gadziala

15. “How early is early?” I asked, never having been a morning person. “Six?” “Ah, yeah, I’m gonna have to hop on the Nope train to Fuckthatville on that one.”

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16. “A strong person like you doesn’t have break downs. They have moments. You’re having one.”

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17. “I’m no doctor here,” Pagan interrupted the tense silence a minute later, “but I’m pretty sure you should be breathing. You know, in through the nose, out through the mouth. Won’t be helping anyone if you pass out.”

— Jessica Gadziala

18. “The waking up was the worst. That slow, growing realization that you lived through it. That you were awake to go through it again. That your body was stronger than you thought. That there was so much more to be endured.”

— Jessica Gadziala

19. “Because I wanted to see if I could make him shine.”

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20. “Aw babygirl, tell me you want to get stabbed somewhere naughty,” he.”

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21. “I refuse to get any more scars from loving edges sharp enough to cut me.”

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22. “Poverty is the surest way to weigh down a soul. And weighted soul does whatever it can do to get some burden off.”

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23. “Being inside her was like prayer. It was worship. It was the closest to God I had ever been.”

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24. “He had even brought drinks for us. Lemonade. Because we were eleven.”

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25. “A mantra like one of those ridiculous self-help hypnosis cds playing in my head on a loop: I am a strong, confident, sexually experienced woman who does not need to feel ashamed of her nudity.”

— Jessica Gadziala

26. “A man like Paine told you to follow him into hell, you ignored the demons and fire and went with him.”

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27. “I wasn’t lying when I told Reign upon first meeting him that I was a sucker for a good love story. As such, I had a slight obsession with romance novels. And by ‘slight obsession’, I meant I devoured at least three a week... and they weren’t the fade-to-black love scene kind. They were the down and dirty, explicit kind.”

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28. “Just because I’m old, doesn’t mean I have to dress like I am none too patiently waiting for death.”

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29. “I lived through this, I needed to find a new fuckin’ job. Janitor. Used car salesman. Guinea pig trainer.”

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30. “I leaned down, grabbing his face and pulling it to mine, letting myself kiss him with every failed hope, lost dream, every frustrated moment of low self-esteem, every hidden, dark, secret, shameful thing. I kissed him like therapy. Like I could pour it all into him and finally be free.”

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31. “The perfection of that silent moment was somehow better than a million mouthfulls promising forever.”

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32. “He had showed me some of his damage. And he was ashamed of that. Little did he know, I wasn’t someone who could judge. So what if he had anger issues? I had ripping myself open issues. And alcohol issues. And daddy issues. And brother issues. And grandmother issues. I was the Long Island iced tea of damage: everything but iced tea included.”

— Jessica Gadziala

33. “The grief that was so strong it shook like continental shifts, dividing what was now from what was, forcing me to acknowledge that I was going to have to build a life on foreign soil.”

— Jessica Gadziala

34. “She said real life was awful enough, that if she was going to escape for a while, she wanted to escape into something that made her laugh.”

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35. “He was the one, the one who was capable of getting in and putting down roots.”

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36. “But what was done was done. And she just had to move on from that. Avoid him whenever possible. When she did have to face him, she would make sure she kept a good three feet between them at all times. Or three yards. Or miles.”

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37. “All I knew was that numb, for any prolonged period of time, was not good. Numb was when you turned to a bottle. Numb was when you turned to a knife. Numb was when the demons had a chance to whisper in your ear.”

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38. “Jasper felt the sadness then. A strong sensation of being pulled underwater, of being helpless to do anything but sink. Further into the despair. Until it completely surrounded you. Until every breath you took was just swallowing more pain. Until you were in so deep that there wasn’t any hope of ever breaking the surface again.”

— Jessica Gadziala

39. “And no person, I was convinced, ever loved as deeply as an animal did for the person who cared for them.”

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40. “What is it about our society that teaches ‘don’t be a victim’ rather than ‘don’t be a criminal’?”

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41. “Sometimes love didn’t spring up on you in a moment of blinding clarity. Sometimes it crept up on you on a Tuesday night while you were standing at the sink doing dishes, the feeling settling into your soul in a way that made it too heavy to ignore anymore.”

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42. “I browsed casually, lulled with the smell of novels: paper and glue and magic, mingled with the scent of freshly brewing coffee and the faintest trace of brownies. It was practically narcotic.”

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43. “He was kissing me like the war was over.”

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44. “Ovary-up, woman!”

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45. “God was the righting of wrongs by any means necessary. God was vengeance. God was a woman with a butcher’s knife.”

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46. “I know it’s lame, but I like my quiet life.”

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47. “Not that I condoned violence, but if anyone was deserving of it, it was people who could hate and harm people on the sole basis of the color of their skin or who they loved or what nation they came from. That was despicable.”

— Jessica Gadziala