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“The hardest thing in the world is to live only once. But it’s beautiful here, even the ghosts agree.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“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

“It was one of those friendships that came on quick, like the heat on a July day, and long after midnight you could still feel its sticky film on your skin as you lie awake in your room, the fan blowing in what remained of the scorched hours, and realize for the first time in your peep of a life that no one is ever truly alone.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“To be alive and try to be a decent person, and not turn into anything big or grand, that's the hardest thing of all. You think being president is hard? Ha. Don't you see that every president becomes a millionaire after he leaves office? If you can be nobody, and stand on your own two feet for as long as I have, that's enough. Look at my girl, all that talent and for what, just to drown in Bud Light?" [...] "People don't know what's enough, Labas. That's their problem. They think they suffer, but they're really just bored. They don't eat enough carrots.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness