Chinese Americans Quotes

“But when I really think about it, I wonder if maybe it's more than that; maybe it's something that hits close to the deepest core of who I am. I'm not a religious person, but what I have with Harry is the closest thing I have - when I am with him is when the world is at its clearest for me.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

“Something crackles on my skin like a fire. He felt me in that moment, he understood what it was to me.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

“I breakfasted with the crapulent major a week later. It was an earthy, quotidian scene, the kind Walt Whitman would have loved to write about, a sketch of the new America featuring hot rice porridge and fried crullers at a Monterey Park noodle shop crammed full of unrepentantly unassimilated Chinese and a few other assorted Asians.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer