Tom Malinowski

“& so what–if my feathers
are burning. I
never asked for flight.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“It was Calzas who told me that your life is a road along which you leave many markers - points in time and places on the map. The ones in time you can only revisit in your mind, and they never change. The places can be revisited firsthand, but they're constantly changing. To keep a place the same, he said, you can no longer return to it - and then it becomes a point in time.”
― Nicholas Christopher, A Trip to the Stars

“She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer