Jess Xu

Jess’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (821)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (392)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
literary-fiction‎ (75)
biography-memoir‎ (56)
non-fiction‎ (54)
fiction‎ (40)
women‎ (36)
how-to-be‎ (27)
crime‎ (26)
psych-related‎ (26)

classics‎ (24)
australiana‎ (22)
altar‎ (20)
contemplative‎ (20)
essays‎ (17)
food-writing‎ (16)
oudoor-adventure‎ (16)
studies-of-societies‎ (16)
cookbooks‎ (15)
feminism‎ (14)
books-about-books‎ (13)
novel‎ (11)

english‎ (10)
mythology-classics‎ (10)
families‎ (9)
spirituality‎ (9)
poetry‎ (8)
america‎ (7)
history‎ (7)
self-help‎ (7)
audiobook‎ (6)
bodies‎ (6)
greece‎ (6)
historical-fiction‎ (6)

ireland‎ (6)
abandoned‎ (5)
africa‎ (5)
funny‎ (5)
lgbtqi‎ (5)
religion‎ (5)
art‎ (4)
comfort-reading‎ (4)
jewish‎ (4)
race‎ (4)
rural-farming‎ (4)
trauma‎ (4)

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Jess’s Quotes

“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.”
― Marina Abramović

tags: art, artist, aspirational, inspirational

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“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

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“I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

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“The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.”
― Heraclitus, Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments

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