Jess Smith

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

“It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess