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

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

“recognizing in that moment that there were some things we are meant to keep for ourselves, too precious to share with others. She”
― Hala Alyan, Salt Houses