Jess

“You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you're scared of what it means to do so.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Maybe I should have stayed longer, explained better. But all I can do right now is remain here, so very far from where I want to be. Maybe it'll all be worth it one day. Maybe it won't, and we'll have lost all this time (and your grandfather will have been right). But know that what I'm doing here is trying to give you a future filled with light.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built