Quotes from Andrew X. Pham

When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.

The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend.

Ah, I know you, An. You're too dreamy. Be careful what you do. Choose your life with your head, not your heart. You are like a butterfly. Beautiful. Quick to die.

If trouble is coming, don't turn your back, because that's when it's gonna stab. Best to meet it with a grin. That way, you can see what's coming.

I think we are, by our own closed-door admissions, a fractious untrusting tribe unified only because we are besieged by larger forces.

He has given me his gift of silence, knowing that at least I am free to construe my own truths about his feelings. It's generous.

His ashes were scattered on the sea he never finished crossing.

I'd realized that the surest way forward was to burn all the bridges behind.

Adventure is but a collection of detours.