Lorraine Thomas

“Possibilities that lay in the past were illusions, closed doors, as meaningless as unfulfilled intentions.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“Any old horse will run when it's whipped, but only fast enough to avoid the whipping," Hilo said. "Racehorses, though, they run because they look at the horse on their left, they look at the one on their right, and they think, No way am I second to these fuckers.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“Expectations are a funny thing,” Wen said. “When you’re born with them, you resent them, fight against them. When you’ve never been given any, you feel the lack of them your whole life.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“However tired I am, however hard it is: I know I can keep going, because I’m alive.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun