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Paul Kalanithi
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

Richard Siken
“The dawn was breaking the bones of your heart like twigs.”
Richard Siken, Crush

Khaled Hosseini
“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”
Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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

Richard Siken
“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
Richard Siken, Crush

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