Sophia

“But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The fact is that there are people, good people who,
not because they want to
but all the same,
fall in love with the wrong thing.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“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