Linh

“Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction

“They say the best blaze burns brightest, when circumstances are at their worst.”
― Howl's Moving Castle

“The price, after all, for not having died already
goes up not in leaps but step by step, and he would
pay that price, too.”
― Wisława Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems