Jessica

“The voice of the waves That rise before me Is not so loud As my weeping, That I am left behind. – Thousand-year-old Japanese poem”
― Jackie Copleton, A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

“I never shall forget the waking, next morning; the being cheerful and fresh for the first moment, and then the being weighed down by the stale and dismal oppression of remembrance”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“The politicians who wring their hands about “the border crisis” know full well that the undocumented population peaked over fifteen years ago, in 2007. Yet employers have not responded to a shrinking undocumented workforce by hiring native-born workers at competitive wages. Instead, they have responded by automating their jobs (using machines instead), hiring other immigrants, like those on H-2A visas (Americans don’t exactly queue up for immigrant jobs), or simply closing up shop.[28] Regardless of their impact”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“No one is ever just one thing.”
― Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles