researching famous first lines of novels....

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendiawas to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)

All this happened, more or less. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (1911)

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)

You better not never tell nobody but God. Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)

-from Pantagraph.com

restless.

dear universe,

i want to run around and jump over fences and ride my bike so fast and walk to barton springs and back and be so tired that all i can do is lay on the floor. and on sunday i'm going to play kickball. dammit.

love,
jess

Oh! I love me a holga. (June 2005)

Going nowhere has it's blessing. (above)

the difference between the breath in your lungs and the breath in the air, is that the breath in your lungs is all yours. (below)

There was such a need to wash my hands.

I know there are several reasons. (above)

I brought you these fake flowers. (below)

Old Portraits I Found

Stef in front of maps.

Emmaline: first thing in the morning and on her birthday

Britt and the wreaths

Autumn at the party

Kite flying down the shore

Personalities

3000 block of Keswick Road, Baltimore, MD

Discarded television, Walnut Avenue, Austin, TX

Discarded television, near the beach, Asbury Park, NJ

Portraits (2)

In the bathroom, 27th street, Baltimore

Emmaline near the bathroom, 27th Street, Baltimore

X. near the bathtub, 27th Street, Baltimore

X. with phone in the alley next to Holy Friholies, The Avenue (36th Street), Baltimore

Emmaline in alley next to Holy Friholies, The Avenue (36th Street), Baltimore

Portraits

Passive Aggressive Note on Powers Street, Baltimore

Leah on 34th and Chestnut, Baltimore

Owen at Sugar in Hampden, Baltimore

Mandy in parking lot between Chestnut and Swanson, Philadelphia

Asher and Mandy in their apartment on Chestnut, Philadelphia