Beatriz de Souza

“I run thinking I will outpace it all, my will to change being stronger than my fear of living.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“We engage poorly with rebels not simply because their ideas unsettle us or we assume we know everything, but because we resent these individuals for making us painfully aware of our own limitations.”
― Todd Kashdan, The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively

“tenderness depends on how little the world touches you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous