Jessi Smith

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.
But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman

“To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism