Jerry Chen

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That's what time is like.”
― John Crowley, Engine Summer

“The things that make us happy make us wise. ”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

“Over a year since I have written in you, you dear old brown book! I hope you will forgive me, but I must ask more forgiveness for my neglect of myself. For in this year that has passed I had laid down for myself two commandments. These are the two.

1. Respect thyself.
2. Be worthy of thine own respect.

If I live up to those two I shall need no Ten Commandments.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay