Jessica Brody > Quotes

“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, The Karma Club

“I mean, how sad is it that I needed a freaking Facebook profile to tell me my boyfriend was no longer my boyfriend? As if Facebook is the official record keeper of relationships and you have to confirm all breakups and hookups with this sacred online registrar before you can consider them certified and approved.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“The memories that really matter don't live in the mind.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“all human beings have control over their own destiny. that is, after all, our purpose on this planet. not to interfere with the lives of others but to shape our own experiences.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“Trust your heart."..."It's the only thing that will never lie to you.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“Circumstances cannot change how you feel. When you truly love someone – on a level that goes deeper than your mind, deeper than your memories, all the way to the very thing that makes you human – you do whatever it takes. You save him.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“Because apart we might be as different as night and day, black and white, right and wrong, but together we create two sides of a whole. Together we balance.”
― Jessica Brody, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“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.”
― Jessica Brody, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“Mistakes can be fixed. Bad decisions can be undone. Model houses can be rebuilt. And perfection is only a word that makes you feel bad about yourself.”
― Jessica Brody, My Life Undecided

“the universe has a place and purpose for everything and everyone. sometimes we cannot know what that place is. or what the purpose of everything that happens to us will be. that is why we must allow the natural order of things to occur.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“New languages are not something you can pick up overnight. They take time. Patience. The willingness to change the way you think about what you already know.”
― Jessica Brody, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“Make wise choices with your life because the rest of the world certainly isn't going to do it for you.”
― Jessica Brody, My Life Undecided

“but not only did you seek to achieve balance in your life but you also sought to achieve imbalance in someone else's.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“The guy you're really supposed to be with can be standing right in front of you and you don't even notice because you're too distracted by the one you think you're supposed to be with.”
― Jessica Brody, My Life Undecided

“It's like I'm caught between two versions of myself. The person I used to be and the person i'm too scared to become. I feel like I'm looking in a mirror and my reflection doesn't match. I just want to be myself again. Only I'm not sure who that is anymore. Is it the girl in the mirror, the one I've struggled to be my entire life? Or is it this stranger living inside me who wants nothing to do with her? How do you decide between them? How do you know which one is really you?”
― Jessica Brody, My Life Undecided

“we must follow our own path, and sometimes that path can be laden with bumps and curves and rivers to cross. but we cannot block the paths of our neighbors, for that is not our place. we can only seek to groom and shape our own.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“Death is not a memory you can fake.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“you cannot obtain balance by also seeking imbalance.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“Humans are born with a passion for well-told stories.”
― Jessica Brody, Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel

“And real things break.
Imaginary things last forever.”
― Jessica Brody, The Chaos of Standing Still

“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.”
― Jessica Brody, A Week of Mondays

“We can only fix our own lives. We cannot play the role of gods in someone else's.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“And if we judged everyone by who they were and not who they've learned to become, well then I guess none of us would have any friends. Including me.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“Instead of constantly living up to everyone's expectations, why not destroy them?”
― Jessica Brody, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“But trust me, that feeling is nothing compared to the one you get when you actually help someone who didn't think that anyone ever would.”
― Jessica Brody, The Karma Club

“It’s like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them.”
― Jessica Brody, A Week of Mondays

“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.”
― Jessica Brody, 52 Reasons to Hate My Father

“Humans are wired to respond to certain storytelling elements told in a certain order.”
― Jessica Brody, Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel

“Any system, if left unattended or isolated, will eventually result in entropy. Or chaos.”
― Jessica Brody, The Chaos of Standing Still