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“Words cast spells. You should know this as a writer. That's why it's called spelling, Labas.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“What you see might not always be what you feel. And what you feel may no longer be real.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“By the time he crossed King Philip's Bridge, he was delirious with want for everything unreachable. entire lifetimes seemed within his grasp, and producible within this one, then vaporized with his breath fogging over his head.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is lift itself. We murder ourselves, he though, by remembering.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness