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Book cover for All the Light We Cannot See
Even the best scientists feel the urge now and then to put something in a pocket. That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.”
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Tayari Jones
“What happens to you doesn’t belong to you, only half concerns you. It’s not yours. Not yours only.”
Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

Ocean Vuong
“Ma. You once told me that memory is a choice. But if you were god, you'd know it's a flood.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong
“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong
“Because something in him know she'd be there. That she was waiting. Because that's what mothers do. They wait. They stand still until their children belong to someone else.”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong
“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

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