“Without all the mysticism of being my mother, she is just a woman, exactly like me, only with less time ahead of her.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“For what it’s worth, you’ve never disappointed me once since I’ve met you”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
“The first time I let myself fall, it wasn’t hot at all. It was cold. January. There was ice on the sidewalks— at least, that’s what I’d heard. But this girl felt like nectarines and balconies to me. She felt like everything. She felt like a long winter, then a nervous spring, then a sticky summer, and then those last days you never thought you’d get to, the ones that spread themselves out, out, out until they feel like they go on forever. So, August is a person.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
“Jane is spun sugar. A switchblade girl with a cotton-candy heart.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
“In fact, she was both my first and second words: Umma, then Mom. I called to her in two languages. Even then I must have known that no one would ever love me as much as she would.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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