Claire Vu

“You had a beautiful friendship. Maybe more than a friendship. And I envy you. In my place, most parents would hope the whole thing goes away, or pray that their sons land on their feet soon enough. But I am not such a parent. In your place, if there is a pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Con người không khuất phục dưới hoàn cảnh hay những thế lực từ bên ngoài, mà sẽ thua cuộc bắt đầu từ chính bên trong”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore