Britton Nash

“I read many books, I saw many, many movies. I watched other lives, only through a window.”
― John Rechy, City of Night

“The one good thing about national anthems is that we’re already on our feet, and therefore ready to run. The truth is one nation, under drugs, under drones.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Because somewhere in that plain of childhood time must have been planted the seeds of the restlessness.”
― John Rechy, City of Night

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous