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“There was a spelling test during my first week back in Ms. Tang's class. By spelling out words that were on the signs hung around the room - A for apple, D for dog - writing gibberish, and copying not so covertly from a handwritten list of words I had in my pocket (Ms. Tang caught me twice, though she said nothing), I scored a proud 33 percent. So began my path to graduating from college with an English degree fifteen years later.”
― Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

“To leave my tale half told, will, you know, be a sort of security that I shall appear at your breakfast table to finish it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“It was both a religious and an economic war, for in those early days of global vandalism the sword and the cross went together.”
― Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History