Henry Holt

“There’s a spot near here on the I-80, Mei knows, where the road appears to lead up into the sky. But each time she’s crossed the state, searching for the optical illusion, she’s missed it. And she wonders whether perhaps the spot is actually nicknamed the Highway to Heaven because this stretch of the road is so mesmerizingly straight, it lures people to sleep, causing accidents.”
― Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

“She thinks of the freedoms he’s guaranteed here and is impressed and heartbroken that it took Aynur’s death, the death of hope, for him to choose those freedoms.”
― Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

“Was the decline of journalistic ethics an inevitable result of capitalism?”
― Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

“They say the traditions will die out when the timers do. Like timers don’t just birth more times. That’s silly talk. You can’t pass down time. Just beliefs. Timers birth believers, mostly.”
― Yvonne Battle-Felton, Curdle Creek