Jesse

“I'm conscious this could be rather burdensome to hear, but you remain the thing I have most chosen for myself. The thing that's most exclusively mine. The one thing that brings me the deepest joy.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“The problem is he thinks he and Eli could be good for each other. Really good. Under different circumstances. In a different life.
Or maybe, if he was just a little braver, in this one.”
― E.L. Massey, Like Real People Do

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War