Local Idiot

“I. This is not a game.

II. Here and now, you are alive”
― Terry Pratchett

“To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― J.D. Salinger