Leon Vuong

“As I consider that
we'll never meet again
I also consider how
there's no reason that we cannot

Will we meet
or will it simply end like this
drawn by the light
trampled by shadows”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

“In order to gain something, you have to lose something,” she always said. People are always trying to get something for nothing. But that’s just theft. If you’ve gained something, it means that someone, somewhere, has lost something. Even happiness is built on someone else’s misfortune. She often reminded me of this. In fact, she considered it one of the laws of the universe.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“Still the silence raged and echoed around her.

Still she felt nothing.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight

“I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea