Jessi

“I'm here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in.

I'm here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.”
― Hala Alyan

“I've been working on the same joke for years. The punchline is you were happy all along.”
― Hala Alyan, The Twenty-Ninth Year: Poems

“I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem
there is no perfect ending.
Indeed, there are infinite endings.
Or perhaps, once one begins,
there are only endings.”
― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

“Caring for each other is a form of radical survival that we don't always take into account.”
― Ada Limon