Evelyn

“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

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

“New York being unbearable in grief, its massive and unending throb of human magnetism making the vacant parts in him more vacuous than he could bear.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness