Jessie

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I couldn’t write. I grew tense. I was strangled by my own ego, by my petty desire for what I perceived to be the literary brass ring. I was missing the point, of course. The reward is in the doing.”
― Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Pleasures and Perils of a Creative Life

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“At that moment in her life, Elisa was, he realized, almost pathologically attracted not to status or money or good looks but to literary and intellectual potential.”
― Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.