Jessica Khoury
Born on February 7, 1990, in Tocoa, Honduras, Jessica Khoury grew up to become a citizen of the United States. Her background spans two distinct cultural geographies, and she works within the English language as her primary medium of literary expression.
Khoury works as a writer, with a focus on young adult fiction. The facts available do not specify individual titles or particular years of publication, but her body of work places her within the young adult genre, a category of literature directed at teenage and adolescent readers.
As a living author and United States citizen, Khoury continues to work in young adult writing. Her career as a writer represents her primary professional identity, rooted in the English language and shaped by a life that began in Tocoa before extending into an American context.
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Do not say such things," said the Queen. "We have today and yesterday, and we will seize tomorrow. We will have all the time in the world if we are clever enough to take it.
Because happiness itself is a mythical construct, a dream you humans tell yourselves to get through each day. It is the moon, and you, like the sun, pursue it relentlessly, chasing it around and around, getting nowhere.
Love is a path lined with roses." I say bitterly. "But it leads to a cliff's edge and all who follow it tumble to their doom. You will not find your happiness there.
"All I wanted," said the Queen, "was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are ruled by a monster."
Because you are young and free and one with the jungle. You are mortal, but instead of clinging to the hope of immortality, you embrace each day, one at a time, and never worry about tomorrow.
Now, when he touches me, I feel nothing but Eio, pure and whole and constant. Now, when I look into his eyes, I don't see death- but eternity. For the first time in my life, I am looking into someone's gaze and realizing that not only do I understand what's in his eyes... he understands whats in mine.
You won't tell?""I'll add it to the box under my bed labeled 'The Secret Confession of the Immortal Pia'. Good Lord, girl, don't look so mortified. There's not actually a box.
All I wanted was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are rules by a monster.