Laelia > Laelia's Quotes

“How wonderful it is to have a place to return to.”
― Eiko Kadono, Kiki's Delivery Service

“everyone has some type of magic inside them. If a person can find their magic and lovingly cultivate it, they'll truly feel alive every day.”
― Eiko Kadono, Kiki's Delivery Service

“humans are so quick to decide that anything they don't understand is evil.”
― Eiko Kadono, Kiki's Delivery Service

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Always another hour to kill – only to beg
some god to give it back.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“When they ask you
where you're from
tell them your name”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“To keep
& be kept
[...]
The way light
keeps its shadow
by swallowing it.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“If I close my eyes
no one can hurt me.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“We had been sailing – but the edge of the world was nowhere in sight.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“there are things / I can say only in the dark”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“If you must know anything, know that the hardest task is to live only once.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“I kneel beside him to see how far
I might sink. Do you know who I am,
Ba? But the answer never comes.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“His voice -
it filled me to the core
like a skeleton. Even my name
knelt down inside me, asking
to be spared.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“For in the body, where everything has a price,
I was alive. I didn't know
there was a better reason.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“Why do all my books leave me empty-handed?”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“The body was made soft to keep us from loneliness.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“Maybe we pray on our knees because god only listens when we’re this close to the devil.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“As if dancing could stop
the heart
of his murderer from beating
between his ribs.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“They will see him
clearest
when the city burns.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“The city is so white it is ready for ink.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“Young enough to believe nothing.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“I don't know / desire other than the need / to be shattered & rebuilt / the mind forgetting / the body's crime of living”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“But only a mother can walk with the weight of a second beating heart.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“You can get lost in every book
but you'll never forget yourself.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“the boy &
his loneliness the boy who finds you
beautiful”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“you've come
this far to be no one”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“He dies when you wake
& it's November forever.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“As if my finger / tracing your collarbone / behind closed doors / was enough / to erase myself. To forget / we built this house knowing / it won't last. How / does anyone stop / regret / without cutting / off his hands?”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds