Sam Cooke

“Maybe by paying a demon what he needs, you keep him from stealing what he desires.”
― Lyra Selene

“Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I'm bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table.”
― Tupac Shakur

“He was only nine but had already mastered the dialect of damaged American fathers.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Have you ever made a scene,' you said, filling in a Thomas Kinkade house, 'and then put yourself inside it? Have you ever watched yourself from behind, going further and deeper into that landscape, away from you?'

How could I tell you that what you were describing was writing? How could I say that we, after all, are so close, the shadows of our hands, on two different pages, merging?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous