Carly Luk

“Are you writing?" By which he meant, are you taking care of yourself, have you learned to live with whatever it was that was destroying you. I told him yes, I was, without ever asking if the same was still true for him.”
― Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

“If your brain was a boat, it is the part underwater that you can't see. You don't think about it. You live on top. You think everything is fine, but maybe there are cracks and leaks underneath you. That's why you say all the time in English: I'm so busy. I'm drowning. You think it's because you have too much to do. Or you're too busy. Or too much stress. But no. Your brain is leaking. You are full of holes. But you think if you just wave your arms fast enough everything will be okay.”
― Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

“People talk about falling in love like a fall is ever a good thing.”
― Chris Whitaker, All Time Bestseller_by Chris Whitaker_Paperback

“Little you can do about which era or group you're set into here, was another direct line that I could draw. An immigrant family controls nothing, and so raises two average children obsessed with gaining it back, albeit in different ways.”
― Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay