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“Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns into gold. Our sorrow Midas touched. Napalm with a rainbow afterglow. Unlike feelings, blood gets realer when you feel it. I'm trying to be real but it costs too much.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

“Relationships never truly ended, and even when people faded from you their effect was preserved somewhere in the particle physics of experience where everything is a compound made up of traces of everything else.”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka

“I hold nothing dear. Not the place where I live, not the door I pass through every day, not even, damn it, my life.”
― Han Kang, The White Book

“Learning to love life again is a long and complicated process”
― Han Kang, The White Book