Jess > Jess's Quotes

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“For a start it doesn’t much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it’s simply the fact that you’re saying it.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“In the end, what matters is this: I survived.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

“Love is letting someone have the power to hurt you in ways you haven’t even thought of yet.”
― Jennifer Dugan, Some Girls Do

“The fear was still there.
But that was okay.
Because it didn't own her.”
― Andie Burke, Fly with Me