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“If you must know anything, know that the hardest task is to live only once.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“Like a premature lung I felt unready for the responsibility of sustaining life.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,”
― William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

“I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at last, teach me how to touch my dead.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous