Shawn

“I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it. I could write a syndicated column for teenagers under the name “Debbi Lynn” or I could smuggle gold into India or I could become a $100 call girl, and none of it would matter.”
― Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That

“I held on to a belief that if even one of these leaves started growing roots, this would not be a complete tragedy. Over the next week, though, every single leaf dried out. Instead of just collapsing and dying the one time, my plant created thirty little pieces out of itself and divided its death into thirty little funerals.”
― Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations

“I can't face that ending, that feeling of finality, that no more of the song comes after it, so I play each song I know about halfway through, I stop mid-word, switch over to the beginning of another one...”
― Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations

“You can mourn your own changes, too. That you are no longer the person you used to be is, in my opinion, a good reason for mourning. It can be a cause for celebration, sometimes, too. But you can always give who you once were a send-off, a memorial, before you move on from them.”
― Jonny Sun, Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations