Benjamin

“Did you know people get rich off of sadness? I want to meet the millionaire of American sadness. I want to look him in the eye, shake his hand, and say, 'it's been an honor to serve my country.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“What we have is not mere love, it's an encapsulation of all that is beautiful in relationships. We are the world's left and right hand, the river and its bed. We are a word consisting of two letters. We are ordinary people, so no one knows the power of our love. Like every indescribable secret, no one knows of its existence, and no one will feel sorrow at its passing, no one but the two of us. How marvellous.”
― Shuang Xuetao, Hunter

“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
                    but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
                                                                        but then he’s still left with his hands.”
― Richard Siken, Crush