Allee

“What would my parents tell me now? Your intentions and your actions must always match, Daiyu. I want to be thick and strong and straight, my lines as black as ink, my corners sharp and neat. I want to be someone I can be proud of. Not someone ruled by fate, but someone who can be certain that her life is a result of the choices she has made. This is the kind of person I want to be: the perfect line.”
― Jenny Tinghui Zhang

“Despite all these boys, I was still alone. We were all within a few hundred feet of each other, in our beds, on our phones, reaching out to strangers, all bound by this same fate, and yet I felt like there wasn’t another soul for years and miles.”
― Santiago Jose Sanchez, Hombrecito

“A promise is a promise indeed. But is it any different from the promise my parents made to me, that they would always be there for me? Or is a promise the one they made to themselves, that they would do everything in their power to help those without power? Both were promises. Both were important. My parents were good people. But they had a higher calling.”
― Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

“How cruel that our parents, unexorcisable, go on inside of us. How cruel that we cannot disimbricate their ghosts from our being.”
― Rivers Solomon, Model Home