Liem Duong

“It was not out of love that I wanted to meet my father, but out of the darkest curiosity - to be able to recognize, in myself, what evil I might be capable of.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“I ain't gonna baptize. I'm gonna work in the fiel's, in the green fiel's, an' I'm gonna be near to folks. I ain't gonna try to teach 'em nothin'. I'm gonna try to learn. Gonna learn why the folks walks in the grass, gonna hear 'em talk, gonna hear 'em sing. Gonna listen to kids eatin' mush. Gonna hear husban' an' wife a-poundin' the mattress in the night. Gonna eat with 'em and learn," His eyes were wet and shining. "Gonna lay in the grass, open an' honest with anybody that'll have me. Gonna cuss an' swear an' hear the poetry of folks talkin'. All that's holy, all that's what I didn't understan'. All them things is the good things.”
― John Steinbeck

“It’s a terrible thing to have my life depend on my half-assed handiwork.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath