Sara Ray

“It is time for you to return to God, goliflón. It is time we send you off because you are a puppet stuffed and made to guard, that is your use".”
― Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio

“Dreams are where we will meet again. In love, in yearning, in fear. Dreams, like countries, are ideas: all reality gestates first inside a dream. Dreams are information for those who read their tea leaves come morning. They are tiny little maps of souls. Of every secret, we push aside while we are awake.....Dreams know you better than you know yourself.”
― Libba Bray, The King of Crows

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I wish the ocean learned to speak its terrors to me, the way introductions speak of repressed ideas and meaning. the ocean, how she consumes desire and sets me dreaming, like flame and fire, burning darkness away until you learn to speak our names. She teaches me to cry, and with my tears, I drown the earth. She teaches me to cry and with my tears I drown the earth.”
― Xavier Navarro Aquino, Velorio