Jess

“a face which would have been a very fine one but for its haggardness. Whether this haggardness had aught to do with criminality, could not be determined; since, as intense heat and cold, though unlike, produce like sensations, so innocence and guilt, when, through casual association with mental pain, stamping any visible impress, use one seal--a hacked one.”
― Herman Melville

“Thus play I in one person many people/ And none contented”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Remember," Duncan asked on the plane, "how Walt asked if it was green or brown?"

Both Garp and Duncan laughed. But it was neither green nor brown, Garp thought. It was me. It was Helen. It was the color of bad weather. It was the size of an automobile.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“...it was a feeling with nowhere to go. Was that what love was, and how it came to you--leaving you no options for its use?”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules