“But it's terrifying to realise how much of your world is wrapped up in loving another person”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those." - Michael Nolan”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“For so long, I was the one with his heart. I just need to see where it is now.” - Quinn”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“It’s too much, this. Life, and love, and how fragile it all is.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“Little victories, they're the ones that counts.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“We lie together, quiet, under an endless sky, beside a bottomless ocean, and we don’t talk about how these are all the things that brought us together. We don’t talk about how we wouldn’t change any of them.We don’t have to, because these are the things we know by heart.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“Today feels different because yesterday was different.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“Do what I tell you, when I tell you, and the worst thing that'll happen is you'll fall in love.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“...we found our own synchronicity together, his heart thumping out a slow. steady beat and mine filling in the spaces between”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“The days passed, one after another, measured out in an unbroken, never-ending rhythm.Seemingly infinite, but gone in the blink of an eye—like waves crashing on the shore, or the seasons passing.
Or the beating of a heart.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“What I mean is,how does he somehow know to show me things I didn’t realize I needed to see, or take me places I wouldn’t have guessed I needed to go?”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those.” —Michael Nolan”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“Listen,” he says. “I know earlier I said just a day, but that was…I wasn't being completely honest. And I know if I let you get in your car and drive away again without telling you the truth, I’ll regret it all the way home.”
He drops his eyes to the ground for a moment, then brings them back up to mine. “Anyway. I promise I won’t surprise you at your door again, but if you ever decide you want another day–ever–I have lots of them, and I …I liked this one.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“You’re okay,” she says. “It’s just your first time back out here. You don’t need to go back.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“She has no idea how careless I’ve already been, or that I know that heart of his maybe even better than he does.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“Because when these tiny little things are afraid, they shine.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“It's terrifying to realize how much of your world is wrapped around loving another person.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“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.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“We should get these wet clothes off," I say conscious now of the cold.
A smile breaks over Colton's face. He raises an eyebrow. "Yeah?”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“Questions are dangerous territory for us.”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
“Scientists have identified individual neurons, which fire, when a particular person has been recognized. Thus, [it is possible that] when a recipient’s brain analyzes the features of a person, who significantly impressed the donor, the donated organ may feed back powerful emotional messages, which signal recognition of the individual. Such feedback messages occur within milliseconds and the recipient [may even believe] that [he] knows the person.” —“Cellular Memory in Organ Transplants”
― Jessi Kirby, quote from Things We Know by Heart
Jessi Kirby
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“It’s too late,” I tell him, even as my heart is shattering inside my chest at the idea of not seeing him again. “It’s never too late, Eva, I promise. I’ll wait for you, baby, please, just let me explain.” I’m shaking my head at him as a truck passes in front of us and the last thing I hear is, “Evie, I love you, remember that please.” And then the truck has gone and so has Ben. Well, I have.”
― Natalie Ward, quote from Losing Me Finding You
“It was my mother, my frequent co-conspirator in the kitchen and my conduit to our past, who suggested the means to convey this epic disjunction, this unruly collision of collectivist myths and personal antimyths. We would reconstruct every decade of Soviet history - from the prequel 1910s to the postscript present day - through the prism of food. Together, we'd embark on a yearlong journey unlike any other: eating and cooking our way through decade after decade of Soviet life, using her kitchen and dining room as a time machine and an incubator of memories. Memories of wartime rationing cards and grotesque shared kitchens in communal apartments. Of Lenin's bloody grain requisitioning and Stalin's table manners. Of Khrushchev's kitchen debates and Gorbachev's disastrous antialcohol policies. Of food as the focal point of our everyday lives, and - despite all the deprivations and shortages - of compulsive hospitality and poignant, improbable feasts.”
― Anya von Bremzen, quote from Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
“ليس هناك على الأرض أقدس من دم الإنسان، يا بني، ولذلك سمّيت بلادنا بالمقدّسة.”
― quote from The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —FR. ALFRED D’SOUZA”
― Arianna Huffington, quote from Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
“«Si todo parece ir según el plan, intenta encontrar algo que hayas pasado por alto y que podría mandarlo todo al garete».”
― Jack Campbell, quote from Valiant
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