Gabrielle Zhu

“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Sounds like a boring life."

"I hope it lasts forever," she said.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“I think it's a mistake to lose one's sense of death, even one's fear of death. Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights