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“Your father is only your father
until one of you forgets. Like how the spine
won't remember its wings
no matter how many times our knees
kiss the pavement. Ocean,
are you listening? The most beautiful part
of your body is wherever
your mother's shadow falls.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“Get a Job, she shouted silently to God. Get a real Job.”
― Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories

“I see the way you wear your hands without worry, but someday they’ll bury something. Someday this story will open like a switchblade. Your hands will plot their own holes, and when they do, I won’t come and rescue you.”
― K-Ming Chang, Bestiary

“& remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds