Jess

“Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in ourselves.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“A fact about the world Millie knows for sure: Everyone knows everything about being born, and no one knows anything about being dead.”
― Brooke Davis, Lost & Found