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“So on summer evenings, when summer finally came, and the full moon lit the fields so silver, you could squint and it would still look just like it did after snowfall. On those nights, Noah and I would run together through the tobacco, like this. And there was this mighty clear sky full of stars that made you stop and look up, you head empty as a ladle as you tried to locate yourself inside an immeasurable universe. And no one knows where you are and you feel, for a tiny second, that you have no parents, that they never existed at all, which is impossible and shameful to love, but I did. I loved that feeling.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“luckily for Denver, looking was food enough to last. But to be looked at in turn was beyond appetite.
It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“پاپس: همه از پلیس های لعنتی متنفرن-- حتا خود پلیس ها هم حالشون از خودشون بهم مى خوره. پليس هاى سياه هم كه ديكه گاو پيشونى سفيدن! پليس هاى سفيد كه هيچ وقت باهامون راحت نيستن، شهروندهاى سياه پوست فكر مى كنن عمو تام يم و بايد گندهاشون رو لاپوشونى كنيم. سفيدپوست ها فكر مى كنن گنده دماغيم. وهر مرتيكه ديگه اى كه ما رو مى بينه فكر مى كنه چون سياهي جورايى لياقت داشتنِ درجه و اسلحه رو نداريم”
― Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy

“لولو: جونيور اصلاً نمى فهمم چرا نمى شه باهات بيام بالتيمور
جونيور: فقط مى خوام چند روز تنها باشم
لولو: آره، ولى من مى تونم باهات بيام و تو واسه خودت تنها باشى.
جونيور: درسته ولى اگه واقعاً تنها باشم بيشتر تنها مى شم
لولو: آخه چرا اصلاً بايد تنها باشى؟
جونيور: تا حالا نشده دلت بخواد تنها باشى؟
لولو: نه
جونيور: وقتى ديدمت تنها بودى
لولو: اون موقع تنها نبودم. فكر مى كردى تنها بودم، ولى نبودم
جونيور: باشه، ولى يه وقت هايى دلم مى خواد تنها باشم”
― Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy