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“I’m not telling you a story so much as a shipwreck—the pieces floating, finally legible.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“When I first started writing, I hated myself for being so uncertain, about images, clauses, ideas, even the pen or journal I used. Everything I wrote begin with maybe and perhaps and ended with I think or I believe. But my doubt is everywhere. Even when I know something to be true I fear the knowledge will dissolve, will not, despite my writing it, stay real.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“These violent delights have violent ends, you have always known this.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“To be alive. To be alive. An intolerably immense undertaking before which one can only gasp in apprehension.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun