Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

— Jessamyn West

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.

— Jessamyn West

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

— Jessamyn West

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

— Jessamyn West

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

— Jessamyn West

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

— Jessamyn West