Jessi

“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

“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

“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

“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