Kelli Chen

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We’re getting old, he thought, and it damn sure didn’t take long.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“What a great difference there is,' she said, 'between dreaming of something and dealing with it!”
― James Baldwin, Another Country