Uyen Ngo

“hope I will remember that love is not a narrow thing. That love is what makes us care, connects us to each other and the world. That love is a quest, a promise, a home.”
― Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

“Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“Was this how the lovers of Pompeii felt when the magma covered them? I was deluged by something very hot, and the world seemed to stop turning.”
― Sang Young Park, Love in the Big City

“Everyone believed in the Factory. Everyone was brainwashed by the Factory and did as they were told. They all used their reproductive organs for the Factory and did their jobs for the sake of the Factory. My husband and I were people they’d failed to brainwash, and anyone who remained unbrainwashed had to keep up an act in order to avoid being eliminated by the Factory.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings