Mack

“Nothing fills Vera with quite as much joy as watching loved ones eat her food. It’s one of the many things she misses about Jinlong and Tilly. When it was the three of them at home, she’d cook every day and watch as Jinlong and Tilly ate, and food always tasted so much better that way. Living alone, Vera finds that much of the joy of cooking has leached out of her, to the point where she mostly eats plain rice and simple sauteed vegetables for dinner. Why bother cooking elaborate meals for just one person? But now she has so many people to cook for. Her days are filled to bursting and she’s constantly rushing here and there, and she can’t possibly be happier than this.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping, and she is the most precious thing I’ve ever known.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“She will fake it even better than a mediocre man interviewing for a job he’s not qualified for.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“KPS is not, and I say this with absolutely no slight intended, a brooding symphony of a novel. It’s a pop song. It’s meant to be light and catchy, with three minutes of hooks and choruses for you to sing along with, and then you’re done and you go on with your day, hopefully with a smile on your face. I had fun writing this, and I needed to have fun writing this. We all need a pop song from time to time, particularly after a stretch of darkness.”
― John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society