yen

“the system fails us again and again and creates the illusion that we are the ones who are failing”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

“On Earth lately, I’ve been looking at everyone

like I love them, & maybe I do. Or maybe I only love
one person, & I’m beaming from it. Or actually

I just love myself, & I want people to know.”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

“There was no one in the world that was ever as critical or could make me feel as hideous as my mother, but there was no one, not even Peter, who ever made me feel as beautiful.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Because I, too,
needed a place
to hold me.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother