Dieu Anh > Dieu's Quotes

“Isn’t that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“To ask 'What's good?' was to move, right away, to joy. It was pushing aside what was inevitable to reach the exceptional. Not great or well or wonderful, but simply good. Because good was more often enough, was a precious spark we sought and harvested of and for one another.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“our mouths are wounds that speak in tongues of healing.
we say, sacrifice.
we mean, murder.
our lips are red for a reason.”
― Yves Olade, Bloodsport

“The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that sunlight was enough to warm my eyelids. I was moved. That something as insignificant as an eyelid had its place in the workings on the universe, that the cosmic order did not overlook this momentary fact.”
― Haruki Murakami

“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Clothes could not fix what was wrong with me. Something had rotted on the inside, and the stench was too powerful, the core too rancid, to be covered up by mere dressings.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

“Fire-breathing bitch-queen.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Hồi ở Mặt trận An Khê, có một anh nhà báo nhận tớ làm em nuôi, dạy tớ làm thơ. Anh ấy bị đạn đại bác Tây, chết mất rồi. Thơ anh ấy hay ghê lắm. Mỗi lần nghe anh ấy ngâm thơ là nước mắt tớ cứ chảy ra.

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― Phùng Quán, Tuổi thơ dữ dội - Tập 1