Phuong Anh

“1. I’m lonely so I do lonely things
2. Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.
3. You hate women, just like your father and his father, so it runs in your blood.
4. I was wandering the derelict car park of your heart looking for a ride home.
5. You’re a ghost town I’m too patriotic to leave.
6. I stay because you’re the beginning of the dream I want to remember.
7. I didn’t call him back because he likes his girls voiceless.
8. It’s not that he wants to be a liar; it’s just that he doesn’t know the truth.
9. I couldn’t love you, you were a small war.
10. We covered the smell of loss with jokes.
11. I didn’t want to fail at love like our parents.
12. You made the nomad in me build a house and stay.
13. I’m not a dog.
14. We were trying to prove our blood wrong.
15. I was still lonely so I did even lonelier things.
16. Yes, I’m insecure, but so was my mother and her mother.
17. No, he loves me he just makes me cry a lot.
18. He knows all of my secrets and still wants to kiss me.
19. You were too cruel to love for a long time.
20. It just didn’t work out.
21. My dad walked out one afternoon and never came back.
22. I can’t sleep because I can still taste him in my mouth.
23. I cut him out at the root, he was my favorite tree, rotting, threatening the foundations of my home.
24. The women in my family die waiting.
25. Because I didn’t want to die waiting for you.
26. I had to leave, I felt lonely when he held me.
27. You’re the song I rewind until I know all the words and I feel sick.
28. He sent me a text that said “I love you so bad.”
29. His heart wasn’t as beautiful as his smile
30. We emotionally manipulated one another until we thought it was love.
31. Forgive me, I was lonely so I chose you.
32. I’m a lover without a lover.
33. I’m lovely and lonely.
34. I belong deeply to myself .”
― Warsan Shire

“Sênh ca tuy đã dứt, âm vang vọng sân nhà. Ánh đèn kia thắp sáng, tiễn khách xuống lầu xa. Lịch sử giống như một màn kịch đã tàn, nhưng sự phồn hoa huyên náo và khí thế ngút trời đó vẫn còn vang vọng hồi lâu trong đêm tối của thời đại, không chịu lùi xa.”
― Bạch Lạc Mai, Bởi vì thấu hiểu cho nên từ bi

“Trước sau tôi vẫn tin rằng, tài hoa của một người không hề liên quan đến sự ra đời của người đó, hết thảy nhân quả, đều có duyên từ kiếp trước. Há không biết, vị thần của vận mệnh đã sớm đợi chờ trên ngã rẽ mà bạn buộc phải đi qua trong kiếp này, không hẹn mà gặp bạn. Sau đó dùng phương thức mà ngài xác định, quyết định cả đời bạn. Trương Ái Linh, ngôi sao ban sớm sáng lấp lánh này, cũng không thoát khỏi tháng ngày êm dịu, không trốn nổi mọi loại kiếp số của trần thế.”
― Bạch Lạc Mai, Bởi vì thấu hiểu cho nên từ bi

“How do you always manage to decide?"
"How can you let others decide for you?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead