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“Why were we expected to speak English perfectly while praising Americans for even the clumsiest dribble of Chinese?”
― Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“strange how suffering can look beautiful if you get far enough away”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Maps are love letters written to times and places their makers had explored.”
― Peng Shepherd, The Cartographers