Adeena

“How can I give another part of myself to someone else, when I already have so little to give?”
― Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison

“But when you are fighting for your rice bowl, you don't think about how many hands were needed to grow the grain. You only think about who's out to steal your portion. Do you see?”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Weight of Our Sky

“Adults rarely like being told that they don’t have all the answers, or worse still, that the answers they do have are all the wrong ones.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Weight of Our Sky

“BY THE TIME SCHOOL ENDS on Tuesday, my mother has died seventeen times.”
― Hanna Alkaf, The Weight of Our Sky