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“People aren’t so bad. They’re just wounded little kids trying to heal.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“He doesn’t want his feelings to matter. He doesn’t want to change his name, or his life, and to say, ‘I feel so seen,’ because Ed doesn’t want to be seen at all. He doesn’t want to be seen as a man, or a woman, or a non-binary person. What Ed wants is to be invisible. What Ed wants is to disappear entirely. He wants to be nothing, by which he means not only that he wants to die, but that he wants to have not ever existed at all, for his body and every person’s memory of his body to be instantly and utterly erased from the world.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

“I'm sorry, she says again, and her voice is like breath, the wind in the elms. He does not want her to say sorry. He wants her to hold his hand again. He wants her to leave. He wants her so badly, he thinks his heart might give out.”
― Claire Daverley, Talking at Night

“The hardest thing in the world is to live only once. But it’s beautiful here, even the ghosts agree.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness