Sangha

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“그녀는 아주 오랫동안 멍청한 여자들에 대해 들어왔다. 마음을 함부로 주는 여자들, 쉽게 승낙하는 여자들, 상황을 주도하지 못하고 끌려다니는 여자들. 그녀는 위험한 남자들보다 멍청한 여자들에 대한 경고를 더 많이 들어왔다. 쉽게 보이면 안 돼. 그건 네 값을 떨어트리는 일이야.”
― 강화길, 괜찮은 사람

“One had followed the rules, and one had not. But the problem with rules... was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the time they were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure what side of the line you stood on.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“In the weeks we’d been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank, where time stops and heaven reaches down to earth and gives us that ration of what is from birth divinely ours. We looked the other way. We spoke about everything but. But we’ve always known, and not saying anything now confirmed it all the more. We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― andre aciman, Call Me by Your Name