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“Perhaps the only inevitable truth was that all lies eventually rise up to meet their makers.”
― Vanessa Chan

“So they sat together, thin backs wedged against the outside walls of the coop---the coop that had once broken Abel down into little pieces, now the only thing holding Freddie up.”
― Vanessa Chan, The Storm We Made: A heartbreaking literary debut of WWII to delight fans of Anthony Doerr and Pachinko

“All love was someone breaking their soul into smaller pieces and offering the broken pieces of themselves as a puzzle to someone else.”
― Vanessa Chan

“The body knows a wound before the mind does and she watched herself press into his.”
― Vanessa Chan

“Yet perhaps the only inevitable truth was that all lies eventually rise up to meet their makers.

The Storm We Made . Kindle Edition.”
― Vanessa Chan

“What a strange and wonderful way to live, Cecily thought, to find the sun in all things. In Cecily, discontent was a constant state of being. She lived with a persistent gurgle of want, of longing for more of everything she could see but did not yet have. To be just content, Cecily thought. How simple it must be.”
― Vanessa Chan