Jessica

“Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Say we spend our last moments staring
at each other, hands knotted together,
clutching the dog, watching the sky burn.
Say, It doesn’t matter. Say, That would be
enough. Say you’d still want this: us alive,
right here, feeling lucky.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“If your life depended on coming up with a tally,

if you could straighten its numbers into a flexible line

around the moon and back a dozen times,

a hundred … still you couldn’t count the planets

that cohabit this planet.”
― Albert Goldbarth, Everyday People: Poems

“...what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow