Jarrod

“And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us into believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.”
― Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

“Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.”
― James Franco, Actors Anonymous: A Novel