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“I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“It is a cruel task, to frighten people in God’s name.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“There were many ways to be alienated from someone, few to actually belong.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half