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Sally Rooney
“Last night he spent an hour and a half lying on the floor of his room, because he was too tired to complete the journey from his en suite back to his bed. There was the en suite, behind him, and there was the bed, in front of him, both well within view, but somehow it was impossible to move either forward or backward, only downward, onto the floor, until his body was arranged motionless on the carpet. Well, here I am on the floor, he thought. Is life so much worse here than it would be on the bed, or even in a totally different location? No, life is exactly the same. Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head. I might as well be lying here, breathing the vile dust of the carpet into my lungs, gradually feeling my right arm go numb under the weight of my body, because it’s essentially the same as every other possible experience.”
Sally Rooney, Normal People

“only in fiction can the hopes and fears and joys and sorrows of people be adequately recorded.”
John Okada, No-No Boy

Cathy Park Hong
“I have struggled to prove myself into existence.”
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong
“But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begin? The problem with silence is that it can’t speak up and say why it’s silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.”
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Michelle Zauner
“I hadn’t believed in a god since I was about ten and still envisioned Mr. Rogers when I prayed, but the years that followed my mother’s passing were suspiciously charmed.”
Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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