Jess

“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. ”
― Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman