moon

“Because I, too,
needed a place
to hold me.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“I think of Barthes again. A writer is someone who plays with the body of his mother, he says after the death of his own mother, in order to glorify it, to embellish it.

...I change, embellish, and preserve you all at once.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“the Chinese proverb: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
― Nick Kolenda, Methods of Persuasion: How to Use Psychology to Influence Human Behavior

“Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men