STARS Quotes

“I trust the stars. I hold the compass people will never have.

I am me.”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“I am rising from the pitfall where I crashed and burned. I am the dark. I am the light. I'm honest. Intuitive. I let feelings wash over me. I'm set in my ways. I'm obsessive. Aggressive. I like to be correct. I'm compassionate. Intimate. Dedicated. I'm wise. Still a child. I'm zesty. I'm temperamental. My heart is on my sleeve. I bury it deep like a treasure. There are days in the sun and some sleepless nights. I have laughter; I have tears. I show my courage; I offer my fear. Inside me is an enigma, a mystic moon with all its phases. My pulses are as vast and bewildering as tides. Out to the ocean, then retreating to the shore. To where they belong.”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“I did pay many years to figure out that every rock bottom I hit was when I gave in to the idea of time and lost track of my purpose. And it took even longer only to realize when I stopped thinking about time, it stopped getting to me. It's not rocket science at all.”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“Would our insignificant existence still count were it not reserved in billions of neurons of other human brains?”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“There are two types of people in this world, one is art, and the other is artist.

Artist pursues beauty. Art is beauty itself.

I was told so. I believe so.”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“What if I had only one day to live? I'm not sure, I've never thought of that. I've never thought of dying the next day. And not being here the day after that.”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“When you asked me from behind what would happen if you traveled abroad, if today wasn't the right day for us, if you couldn't stay in love, and what we had would all go to waste, I said, "Let's just forget about it now.”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“At that moment, I wished no one had known my name,
where I had been,
what I had done,
or what my existence had ever meant.”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“They thought they were out into the sea, only to be fish in a barrel.”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“Every hour, every minute, every second, I'm caught up in a vicious loop that the instant I arrive at one point, the next thing I know is that I have to start from scratch again.”
― Cuong Le, STARS

“How many nights do I sleep in fear of morning and wake up hoping the sun never rises again?”
― Cuong Le, STARS