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“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

“And there was this might clear sky full of stars that made you stop and look up, your head empty as a ladle as you tried to locate yourself inside an immeasurable universe. And no one knows where you are and you feel, for a tiny second, that you have no parents, that they never existed at all, which is impossible and shameful to love, but I did. I loved that feeling.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“It must be agonizing for moms to wait for their children to finally realize they're Human Beings. We're lucky. Our human beings are turning out to be better than we could have ever expected.”
― Kim Fay, Kate & Frida

“I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people manage to fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heorin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem