

“The sun is bursting through my chest, breaking past my lips. It's my life, I think with amazement, and it's beautiful, and I can paint it any color I want to. Right now it's drenched in the brighest shade of gold. I have the brush in my hands, and the canvas is mine. It's all mine.”
― I Am Not Jessica Chen
― I Am Not Jessica Chen

“It's my life, I think with amazement, and it's beautiful, and I can paint it any color I want to.”
― I Am Not Jessica Chen
― I Am Not Jessica Chen

“The world just felt smaller without you,” he tells me. It’s the kind of sentiment most people would be afraid to say out loud, but he looks me
straight in the eye when he speaks, his chin lifted a few degrees, as if in challenge. “Or maybe you have a way of making the world feel bigger. I missed you.”
―
straight in the eye when he speaks, his chin lifted a few degrees, as if in challenge. “Or maybe you have a way of making the world feel bigger. I missed you.”
―

“And I'm certain in this very moment that if I had to walk deep into the woods, into a burning house, down into the depths of hell itself, he would still accompany me, just to make sure I don't leave his sight.”
― I Am Not Jessica Chen
― I Am Not Jessica Chen

“This would be an absolutely incredible, life-changing thing if it happened to me. But for you? It's just another accomplishment, isn't it?”
― I Am Not Jessica Chen
― I Am Not Jessica Chen
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