an extract from a veryyyyyy goood book!

"

I suppose the only good thing about heartbreak is that it reinforces your
sense of humanity

'Heart' - because the pain is felt primarily in your chest, though perhaps
not quite left of centre. 'Break' - because the feeling is one of damage,
devastation even; one of something inside you fracturing or worse, shattering
into a million irretrievable pieces. It can also feel like something within you
collapsing, imploding, leaving traces of nothing behind. Heartbreak can make you
feel heavy, or it can make you feel strangely weightless, because there is a
sensation that you have been drained of absolutely everything. Then there
are the tears, shed singly or in streams quietly or in heaving sobs, and
the fear, no matter how irrational that the feeling may never go away

When i was an adolescent, i subscribed to every known romantic notion.
Filled with as much optimism as yearning, i never doubted for a moment that
eventually i would find true love. It was simply a question of when. I wasn't
necessarily expecting a straightforward fairytale. Like many Asian gay men, of
my generation at least, I had been conditioned from a young age to expect
melodrama in my life, to go so far as to invite it. there would be trials and
tribulations, but there would also be exultation and ecstasy, and eventually, i
would find Mr Right and have my happy ending

"
- extracted from " To Know Where I'm Coming" from by Johann S Lee


just got the book from Boss Ben, and can i say upon reading the first few paragraphs of the first chapter, i am indeed taken away by how lyrical is sounds as you mentally mouth it in your mind. the simplicity of the words sing deep into your soul as though a mirror has been reflected upon you.

silence please as i happily binge on this literary feast bestowed upon me :)