Dalena Tran

“Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash.”
― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“One day Kashmir will make India self-destruct in the same way. You may have blinded all of us, every one of us, with your pellet guns by then. But you will still have eyes to see what you have done to us. You're not destroying us. You are constructing us. It's yourselves that you are destroying. Khuda Hafiz.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness