I want this day to be my fresh start. I want this to be the day I step out of my comfort zone and go somewhere new.

It's a strange, surreal thing to watch an ideal crumble right in front of your eyes, and to know there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

I'd give anything right now to go back, even just for a few moments, so I could pay more attention. Inscribe every detail of him, and of us together, onto my heart, where I could keep it safe always. Where even time couldn't erase it.

—Jessi Kirby in Things We Know by Heart

Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

It's terrifying to realize how much of your world is wrapped up in loving another person.

—Jessi Kirby in Things We Know by Heart

We’re all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there’s more to me than that. I just haven’t had the chance yet to show it.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

—Lillian Hellman

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

—Robert Frost

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

—Carl Sandburg