Jaleesa Oconnel

“All men are. I declare, I think you to be the most incomprehensible creatures.”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“I swallowed a sigh since, truthfully, I was glad she found the cabin.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“Our lumber pile, recruited entirely from the river, is thus not only a collection of personalities, but an anthology of human strivings in upriver farms and forests. The autobiography of an old board is a kind of literature not yet taught on campuses, but any riverbank farm is a library where he who hammers or saws may read at will. Come high water, there is always an accession of new books.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We