Xinyan Chen

“Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing.”
― Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

“As Cathy swam back and forth in the creek, I grieved, not for my girlhood or the swim team or the failed races, but for losing her, for losing the chances I could have had with her, and for my memories forever tainted—such was the price of transcendence beyond human.”
― Jade Song

“And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself.”
― Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead

“There's something disarmingly, devastatingly self-confident about Jack. About the way he laid out all these facts without hesitating, as though owning his feelings is first and second nature. I study the glint of the lamp hitting his golden hair and wonder why this man would even bother thinking of me. He's figured out my entire game. I came to him empty-handed.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically