Jess

“I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live”
― Josh Homme

“They were interesting things, stars. Like clouds, you could see them and could not deny their existence. Yet you couldn’t touch them, hold them, or own them. You couldn’t feel them. Love was somewhat the opposite, he pondered. It can’t be seen but it can be felt. It was intangible, like the stars and the clouds, like the heavens and destiny. Yet it existed, he knew this to be true.”
― Paige Elwood, The City of Love: A Medieval Time Travel Romance

“Wars were made by something ignorant in the human heart”
― John Knowles

“Real, it turns out, is just as flexible a concept as value.”
― Aja Raden, Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World