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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.Jessica Brody
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Tristan was the soundtrack of my summer. The beat I walked to. The melody I breathed in and out. The lyrics I lived by.Jessica Brody
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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
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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
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If something you did causes failure, shouldn't the exact opposite of what you did bring success?Jessica Brody
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I don’t know. I guess I’d just like to see you live one day for yourself.Jessica Brody
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It’s like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them.Jessica Brody
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I’m so tired of crying. I’m so tired of losing. I’m just so tired.Jessica Brody
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I can’t help to feel like they’re staring at me, too. Judging me. Deeming me not good enough. Not pretty enough. Not cool enough. And to be honest, sometimes I wonder if they’re right.Jessica Brody
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But there’s nothing. My life is one big meaningless cycle of nothingness.Jessica Brody
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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
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We all need to believe in something. It gives us a reason to get up in the morning. Something to fight for.Jessica Brody
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The memories that really matter don't live in the mind.Jessica Brody
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If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings.Jessica Brody
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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
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I am no longer hesitant. I am ready. I am fearless.Jessica Brody