Dalena Tran

“For the first time back then, I thought about everything seriously. The past and the future, both equally unknowable, and also this ongoing situation that the consulates call "transitory" but that we know in everyday language as "the present.”
― Anna Seghers, Transit

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desparation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“That's what I wanted—not merely the body, desirable as it was, but its will to grow into the very world that rejects its hunger.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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