Jessica Strack > Jessica's Quotes

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
― Agostinho da Silva

“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”
― Christian Bauman

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
i want to be so complete
i could light a whole city
and then
i want to have you
cause the two of us combined
could set it on fire”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“You were so distant I forgot you were there at all.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“you might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“The thing worth holding on to would not have let go.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“there is a difference between
someone telling you
they love you and
them actually
loving you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Of you are not enough for yourself
you will never be enough for someone else.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey