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

“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

“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale