Yayang

“I can say it was gorgeous now, my harm, because it belonged to no one else. To be a dam for damage. My shittyness will not enter the world, I thought, and quickly became my own hero.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother

“Inside my head, the war is everywhere. I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother

“Maybe, like you, I was one of those people who loves the world most when I’m rock-bottom in my fast car going nowhere.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother

“That all the roads you walk in life, in one way or another ‘lead to what has been predetermined for you’.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove