Jessamyn West Quotes

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

People who keep journals have life twice.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don`t, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.