Jess

“...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

“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

“I felt as if I could walk into the house and lay on the bed, and everything would be as before. And Froggy would be happy and I would be happy too. But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to I wrote and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own.
"If I could walk into the house and say, 'Froggy, I'm sorry I left.' If I could hug him and unbutton his shirt and pick the petals from his hair. If I could do that, there would be no reason for me to fight this war.”
― Salvador Plascencia

“I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees