Bobbie Phomphithak

“Before, I was paralyzed, though I didn’t really know it,” he said. “It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind. It was hard to make decisions. I felt immobilized.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Kirpal’s left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers of his daughter, a wrinkle at the edge of his eyes behind his spectacles.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“I sha'n't catch up in this world, anyway. I'd rather you'd not go unless you must.”
― Robert Frost, North of Boston