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“Grandfather brought his rough hands to my eyes, wiping the tears from my face. “I’m saying, Mina, that Joon has loved you
your entire life. Since the day you were born. He will always love you. It is his forever gift to you.”
I shook my head. “Then why did he leave me behind?”
“Because he knows that you love him enough to let him go.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Those nights, I open Sensei’s briefcase and peer inside. The blank empty space unfolds, containing nothing within. It holds nothing more than an expanse of desolate absence.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo