Jessica

“If you can’t go home again, then you must take home with you wherever you go.”
― Cookie Hiponia Everman, We Belong

“The most infuriating thing is the idea that ethnic food isn't already good enough because it goddamn is. We were fine before you came to visit and we'll be fine after. If you like our food, great, but don't come tell me you're gonna clean it up, refine it, or elevate it because it's not necessary or possible. We don't need fucking food missionaries to cleanse our palates.”
― Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat

“You really wouldn't think, to look at the playground, that hundreds of people over on the other side of the world had just had their lives crushed by a horrible earthquake. And the weird thing was, everybody probably knew about it. Everybody had glanced at the newspaper headlines or heard the radio in passing or glimpsed something as they changed channels on the TV. Hundreds of Casualties in Massive Philippine Earthquake. But 'hundreds' are not people, are they? And blank faces on TV are not people either.”
― Candy Gourlay, Tall Story

“This country try to take everything from you. Your language, your food, your children.
Learn how to use chopsticks.
This country can't have everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star