Jessie

“She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“Beside the mailboxes was a potted rubber plant, the ceramic container littered with popsicle sticks and cigarette butts. The rubber plant looked as worn out as I felt. Seemed like every passerby had heaped abuse on the poor thing. I didn’t know how long it’d been sitting there. I must have walked by it every day, but until I got knifed in the gut, I never noticed it was there.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“The differences between people are not as great as the differences between humans and apes. Talent is simply the ability to work harder than other people.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, Evil and the Mask