Lu

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Great events turn on small hinges.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“If the Devil is poverty, and hunger, and grief, then yes, I think they know the Devil.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“I am writing you from inside a body that used to be yours. Which is to say, I am writing as a son.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous