Jessica

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
― Francis Chan

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
― Kobayashi Issa, Poems