Ethan Kim

“Amateurs obsess over strategy, Irjah had once told their class. Professionals obsess over logistics”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew... And in this isolation, our creativity took on an aspect of compulsion.”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“I could either study meaning or I could experience it.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I love you,' she said to me, and I believed her. 'I love you,' I said to her, and I spoke the truth. We were a torch of flame, the edges of the bed tongues of Hell-fire. The smell of smoke was in my nostrils as she said to me 'I love you, my darling,' and as I said to her 'I love you, my darling,' and the universe, with its past, present and future, was gathered together into a single point before and after which nothing existed.”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North