- "Because love, at its best, repeats itself. Shouldn't it?" -- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- "It's impossible to make the sun rise, but even I can turn on the lights!" -- Cardcaptor Sakura, Episode 2
- "Let's see how it's made, they'll say--as if how something is assembled is alien to the impulse that created it. As if the first chair was hammered into existence without considering the human form." -- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- "Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence--but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it." -- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- "Being depressed one moment, and delighted the next... you're one busy girl." -- Cardcaptor Sakura, Episode 7
- "I remembered my life the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree." -- Ocean Vuong, Time is a Mother
- "The fact that you are who you are helps the people you love to live through you." -- Trigun, Episode 14
- "Of course it's heavy! That's because it's full of mercy!" -- Trigun, Episode 25
- "The problem wasn't really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live." -- Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
- "Maybe, in the absence of any certainty, we should just assume that we're going to live a long time. Maybe that's the only way forward." -- Paul Kalinithi, When Breath Becomes Air
- "But he found meaning in the striving." -- Lucy Kalanithi, Epilogue of When Breath Becomes Air
- "Because I have met enough Asian American parents and children to know that their families have been destroyed by this focus on making the child a valuable commodity, when it's a little person, with a little soul." -- Min Jin Lee, What Min Jin Lee Wants Us to See (The New Yorker)
- "Nothing is so similar to life as music." -- Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- "More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing on the edge of my tongue, the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying it out loud to him on the street--which was, of course, I love you." -- Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
- "Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?" -- Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
- "Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result." -- Yukio Mishima, "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion"
- "The thought of missing out on motherhood gave her the chills. It terrified her to think of how close she came." -- Mieko Kawakami, "Breasts and Eggs"
- "We're all so small, and have such little time, unable to envision the majority of the world." -- Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs
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