Things We Know by Heart

by Jessi Kirby

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.”

and the worst thing that’ll happen is you’ll fall in love.”

“Little victories.” “They’re the ones that count.

I do feel strong right now, and it surprises me that my body remembers how to be.

I feel the best I have in a long, long time, and it makes me wish I could bottle this feeling.

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.” —Plato

if she just keeps moving, the things she’s upset about can’t catch her.

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.” —Zelda Fitzgerald

maybe even though we don’t know each other that well, our hearts do.

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.” —James Earl Jones

“Fear can paralyze people.

“Nothing like a little brush with death to remind you you’re alive.”