Lovelier, Lonelier Quotes

“It wasn't love, really. They were just trying to make something out of their lives”
― Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier

“I could see that it was possible to be loved, and to be surrounded by love in a way we know we do not deserve. If you are big enough of a monster, you just know. And if you are good enough of a person, you will not settle for simply knowing the fact. You will also walk away.”
― Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier

“(He) had hoped that married life would represent a kind of horizontal slate, a prevailing, unchanging state of affairs, when truthfully it felt more like a cycle, a pendulum that swung between fulfillment on one end… while a sheer and cold ambivalence lay squarely on the other.”
― Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier

“And while the cosmos was mappable, no matter how vast it actually was, the same could not be said of the heart. And the same, surely, could not be said of the soul. How far could the soul go… before it was finally out of reach? Before it could be free from the hurt, the suffering, and the knowledge that love, even love, was finite?”
― Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier

“Every star is a sun has an Earth has a person”
― Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier

“It should make no sense, really, that something good can come from something so tragic.”
― Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier