Quỳnh Ngọc Quỳnh

“And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

“Trong truyền thuyết, nếu cá chép muốn hóa rồng, thì phải rút đi toàn bộ vẩy cá trên người mình, chặt đứt vây cá, mới có thể hóa thành rồng.

Trong truyền thuyết, con chim phải tự đốt cháy mình, trải qua cơn đau thiêu đốt của ngọn lửa, mới có thể hóa thành phượng hoàng.

Chẳng lẽ thanh xuân tất yếu phải trải qua ngu muội đau khổ, mới có thể đạt được sự khôn ngoan trưởng thành?”
― Đồng Hoa