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“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.”
― Fresh Off the Boat
― Fresh Off the Boat
“when'd the west set in your bones? you survive
each winter like you were made for snow, a stranger
to each ancestor who lights your path. your parents,
dead, never taught you their language -- stranger
to everything that tries to bring you home.”
― If They Come for Us
each winter like you were made for snow, a stranger
to each ancestor who lights your path. your parents,
dead, never taught you their language -- stranger
to everything that tries to bring you home.”
― If They Come for Us
“In the end, Min Soo compromised. She gave her son an American name followed by a Korean personal name followed by the family name. She named him Charles Jae Won Bae. She named her second son Daniel Jae Ho Bae.
In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean.
So they would know where they were from.
So they would know where they were going.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean.
So they would know where they were from.
So they would know where they were going.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
“If you can’t go home again, then you must take home with you wherever you go.”
― We Belong
― We Belong
“You always tell me it's too late for you to read, with your poor liver, your exhausted bones, that after everything you've been through, you'd just like to rest now. That reading is a privilege you made possible for me with what you lost. I know you believe in reincarnation. I don't know if I do but I hope it's real. Because then maybe you'll come back here next time around. Maybe you'll be a girl and maybe your name will be Rose again, and you'll have a room full of books with parents who will read you bedtime stories in a country not touched by war.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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