Evelyn

“Words cast spells. You should know this as a writer. That’s why it’s called spelling, Labas.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“and walks with newfound”
― Carly Mountain, Descent & Rising: Women's Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth

“Every generation says this of itself, but these were indeed bewildering times he lived in, a time before iPhones were everywhere, and people still looked up as they walked, their heads filled with self-generated thoughts floating up from deep pits in the subconscious. A time when you still knocked on each other’s doors, and if you wanted to talk to somebody, you had to call them on a landline, listen”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“Addiction serves a purpose. It is medication for an aching soul, relief for a pained body, and escape from an impossible mind.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, All the Way to the River