Haoyan Do

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“The best people all have some kind of scar.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“We'd appraise each other, in the provisional way that lovers do, by attaching great depth and significance to the provisional. How, after all, do you "know" anyone? You take in certain physical and emotional characteristics that you've aestheticized, ignoring the facts. You listen to what a lover has to say, taking in the erotic music of their sound, their timbre, while dismissing the lyrics.”
― Dionne Brand, Theory

“I was someone who lived in anxiety. I felt anxiety was part of being conscious in the world; it was a prerequisite of a moral and ethical life. I don't mean the anxieties of Capital, I mean the anxieties of an unfinished world, the unfinished projects of the imagination, as Wilson Harris would put it.”
― Dionne Brand, Theory