“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
“For the rest of my life there would be a splinter in my being, stinging from the moment my mother died until it was buried with me.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Hers was tougher than tough love. It was brutal, industrial-strength. A sinewy love that never gave way to an inch of weakness. It was a love that saw what was best for you ten steps ahead, and didn't care if it hurt like hell in the meantime. When I got hurt, she felt it so deeply, it was as though it were her own affliction. She was guilty only of caring too much. I realize this now, only in retrospect. No one in this would would ever love me as much as my mother, and she would never let me forget it.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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