“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
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“The general teaching of the Upanishads is that works alone, even the highest, can bring only temporary happiness and must inevitably bind a man unless through them he gains knowledge of his real Self.”
― quote from The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
“Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.”
― Charles Baxter, quote from The Feast of Love
“Singing is my pleasure, but not in church, for the parson said the gargoyles must remain on the outside, not seek room in the choir stalls. So I sing inside the mountain of my flesh, and my voice is as slender as a reed and my voice has no lard in it. When I sing the dogs sit quiet and people who pass in the night stop their jabbering and discontent and think of other times, when they were happy. And I sing of other times, when I was happy, though I know that these are figments of my mind and nowhere I have been. But does it matter if the place cannot be mapped as long as I can still describe it?”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from Sexing the Cherry
“Getting over it so soon? But the words are ambiguous. To say the patient is getting over it after an operation for appendicitis is one thing; after he’s had his leg off is quite another. After that operation either the wounded stump heals or the man dies. If it heals, the fierce, continuous pain will stop. Presently he’ll get back his strength and be able to stump about on his wooden leg. He has ‘got over it.’ But he will probably have recurrent pains in the stump all his life, and perhaps pretty bad ones; and he will always be a one-legged man. There will be hardly any moment when he forgets it. Bathing, dressing, sitting down and getting up again, even lying in bed, will all be different. His whole way of life will be changed. All sorts of pleasures and activities that he once took for granted will have to be simply written off. Duties too. At present I am learning to get about on crutches. Perhaps I shall presently be given a wooden leg. But I shall never be a biped again.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from A Grief Observed
“My father’s on my radar, but most of the time I shut it off.”
― Nick Flynn, quote from Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
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