Jess

“We look up at the same stars and see such different things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.”
― Boris Pasternak

“I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

“The Beginning of the End can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. When I was a kid I couldn't see any of these ridges. It was only after Swamplandia!'s fall that time folded into a story with a beginning, a middle, and an ending. If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!