Luca

“I’ll tell you how we’re wrong enough to be forgiven. How one night, after backhanding mother, then taking a chain saw to the kitchen table, my father went to kneel in the bathroom until we heard his muffled cries through the walls. & so I learned—that a man in climax was the closest thing
to surrender.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“To love another man is to leave no one behind to forgive me.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask