“But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell–like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!”
― Street Haunting
― Street Haunting
“It made me miserable that I was rapidly becoming an adult and that I was unable to do anything about it.”
― Schoolgirl
― Schoolgirl
“You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
“...for unless I am myself, I am nobody.”
― Complete Works of Virginia Woolf
― Complete Works of Virginia Woolf
“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?
I miss you more than I remember you.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
I miss you more than I remember you.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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