Maggie

“how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“But that act reversed our hierarchies, and with it our identities, which, in this country, were already tenuous and tethered.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Nobody has it coming.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“we did not simply live in two cultures, as celebrants of the great American melting pot imagined. Displaced people also lived in two time zones, the here and the there, the present and the past, being as we were reluctant time travelers. But while science fiction imagined time travelers as moving forward or backward in time, this timepiece demonstrated a different chronology. The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer