Alecander Seiler

“No matter how long you've been doing a job or how good people say you are, you need to care as if you've never done it before.”
― Jon M. Chu, Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen

“How strange to feel something so close to mercy, whatever that was, and stranger still that it should be found in here of all places, at the end of a road of ruined houses by a toxic river. That among a pile of salvaged trash, he would come closest to all he ever wanted to be: a consciousness sitting under a light-bulb reading his days away, warm and alone, alone and yet, somehow, still somebody's son.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“As I watched them around school, I saw that all their bravado, their crudeness, sometimes their violence, dissipated when they were alone. That was the thing that broke my heart, that made them so perfect to me. I saw that they were soft, and this softness made my heart sore, because I knew it was a private thing, an intimate thing that only showed itself when they were unwatched, when they felt safe. Their tenderness was a world I was locked out of, and all I wanted was to be let inside.”
― Seán Hewitt, Open, Heaven

“In short: Did I still believe in myself? The question was stark, but it wasn't simple. It turns out that if you want to change your life and reach a dream that seems to be receding beyond the horizon, then the question isn't something you answer only once. It's with you every morning. It's with you every night. The world is going to ask it and keep asking it. And every time it does, you have to give the same answer. And that answer has to be true- there's no lying.”
― Jon M. Chu, Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen