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“”…she had been unsure how to find the way home, because there was no home left.”

“…there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”

“Everybody warns about bad influences, but it's these things already inside you that are going to take you down. The restlessness in your gut… The hopeless wishes that won't quit stalking you: some perfect words you think you could say to somebody to make them see you, and love you, and stay.”

“it hit me pretty hard, how there's no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want, and youre on your own.”


this shit is dense

“perhaps the would would never be perfect, perhaps some things would never be right, but maybe she stood a chance of finding her own sort of peace & freedom”

“Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”

i love being unemployed, i just get to read all damn day

“Love is not the weakness. People get in its way.
People are weak and perilous, not love.”

“'Is that what life is to you, a tragedy?’

‘Of course it's a tragedy. A very silly one. The absurdity is as great as the despair?”

“Yes, cultural norms and fads bring temporary progress here and there, but that's not a change in human morality. Inside we are all exactly the same as we have ever been and will always be until we extinguish ourselves soon enough. To believe otherwise is just a story you tell yourself to sleep at night?”

“i think we think about happiness all wrong. as if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. but that’s not my experience with happiness. for me, it comes and goes.”

“women can be heroes”

“because the fairytales were right. you’ll need sorcery to make it out of here.”
-ocean vuong

“the ocean is a woman, baby. never turn your back on her.”