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“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

“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

“If you aim for Gladness and miss, you'll find us. For we are called East Gladness. Gladness itself being no more, renamed to Millsap nearly a century ago after Tony Millsap, the boy who returned from the Great War with no limbs and became a hero--proof you could loose almost all of yourself in the country and still gain a whole town.”
― 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