Jasmine Grix

“Why do people keep asking to see God’s identity papers when the darkness opening into morning is more than enough?”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“And then he laughed that rich man’s laugh of his. A sound that affirmed what Elliott would say to me later that year: judge people not by how they lose, but how they win.”
― Adam Ross, Playworld

“I was taught the indelible lesson that, to arrive at love, I must suffer through someone else’s idea of it. And yet even now, I resist the notion that we are reducible to our wounds.”
― Adam Ross, Playworld

“Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver