Jessie

“The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“Progress is just perpetually undoing our no longer true enough systems in order to create new ones that more closely fit people as they really are. People aren’t changing, after all. It’s just that for the first time there’s enough freedom for people to stop changing who they are. Progress is the acknowledgment of what is and what has always been. Progress is always a returning.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia