Lệ Lin

“Thế giới khi ta lớn ngày một khác, đôi khi càng cố giấu mình, càng nấp kĩ chỉ khiến ta trở nên lạc hậu, khác người, bị bỏ ra ngoài cuộc chơi. Thế rồi, một ngày khi trò chơi tàn cuộc, ta chính là anh chàng chui ra khỏi đống rơm đi về mà chẳng được gì, dù chỉ là một chút đùa vui.”
― Hà Nhân, Ngày trong sương mù

“You give me this advantage: that whereas you have never had to look at me, because you’ve sealed me away along with sin and hell and death and all the other things you didn’t want to look at, including love, my life was in your hands, and I had to look at you. I know more about you, therefore, than you know about me. I’ve had to spend my life, after all—and all the other Negroes in the country have had to spend their lives—outwitting and watching white people. I had to know what you were doing before you did it. People talk about the new Negro, but he’s been coming for three hundred years. The country thinks he’s new because they’ve never had to look at him before. And they are looking at him now, not because there’s been a change of heart, but only because they must.”
― James Baldwin, The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

“We must learn to love ourselves less and the earth more. This will not be an easy task for we live in the age of nonsense. Bombarded with thousands of messages each day that proclaim how to be loved instead of how to be loving, we have learned to love objects instead of processes.”
― Steve Van Matre, The Earth Speaks: An Acclimatization Journal

“Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.”
― Sylvan Barnet, A Short Guide to Writing About Art