Jess

“Men of few words are the best men."

(3.2.41)”
― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.”
― Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers

“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)”
― Mary Oliver, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

“We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories