Celine

“I’ve loved some very sad people in my life and hurt myself trying to get them to change. They didn’t, and I have no business being surprised by it. People will tell you who they are. It takes an emergency for some of us to listen.”
― Stephanie Danler, Stray: A Memoir

“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“Are you mine?”
Yes.
“Are you mine?”
Yes.
“Are you mine?”
No.
“No?”
No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“What good is beauty, any beauty, if nobody wins?”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness