I’ve got this tiny pang of regret when I think of how much I have probably missed out on in the last few years because I was too scared to take a risk, or too shy to speak up, or too worried to be bold.

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

What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

—Logan Pearsall Smith

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

—Elizabeth Kenny

Venus favors the bold.

—Ovid

Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.

—Carlos A. Urbizo