Jessi

“Remember that. Your own story is just one, and perhaps not the important one. The self is not the principal thing.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

“The women who arrive call me clever, cunning, beautiful, wise. They tell me their secrets and speak of violations and of dreams. They confide what they would never admit to another even though I am a stranger. I do the best I can on their behalf.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

“She cannot describe for me precisely what she means, but I assume she thinks that the extra time we’ve spent reading and writing has affected Michael, Juston, and me; we are the three who have gone to college. We have been forever altered by books. We will ask questions, and in doing so, we allow an uncharted world to form in our heads. Our world is not so much a place in which problems are fixed, but one in which doors are left open and we live with the uncertainty of what we do not know. We will revisit the open doors day after day, and we share the open doors with one another.”
― Marie Mutsuki Mockett, American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

“because there is something about the animals that takes us out of ourselves and takes us out of time and allows us to forget our own lives.”
― Douglas Coupland, LIFE AFTER GOD