Cio Rose

“Know that there is no demand, no pressure, to speak or not to speak. To not speak does not mean you have some kind of debilitating silence, or that you are shattered within. It is possible to speak through silence, to use the pieces of our fragmented past to make new worlds.”
― Y-Dang Troeung, Landbridge: life in fragments

“At that age, time moves slow. You're eager for something to happen, passing time in parking lots, hands deep in your pockets, trying to figure out where to go next. Life happened elsewhere, it was simply a matter of finding a map that led there. Or maybe, at that age, time moves fast; you're so desperate for action that you forget to remember things as they happen. A day felt like forever, a year was a geological era.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“Once you experience a terrible trauma and understand the world from an extreme perspective, it is difficult to overcome this perspective. Because your very survival depends on it.”
― Bora Chung, Cursed Bunny

“At the time, she knew nothing of all this. But what she found so attractive in him was, yes, a wound, what else could she call it, a wound that was the exact—no, the ideal—counterpart to her own. Guillaume had certainly had to deal with that wound, but as a doctor, not as a brother in poverty.”
― Anne Serre, The Beginners