Zoya ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language’s assertive nature by “add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if anything that came out of language could make language tremble.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“I know. It’s not fair that the word laughter is trapped inside slaughter. We’ll have to cut it open, you and I, like a newborn lifted, red and trembling, from the just-shot doe.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“All of that. And their phone calls, the messages they wrote to one another, their jealousies, the years of looks, suppressed smiles, their dictionary of little touches. All the stories they had told about each other, about themselves. This much was in their eyes and passed between them.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You