Whitney Sheng

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“You passed. But have you considered the word "la"?”
― Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

“Life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“I watched my city crumble on the BBC while my parents watched the local news. They were with the widows of firefighters and men holding pictures of missing fiancees. I was with the evenhanded political analysts and smug pundits. I was watching history on somebody else's channel, and in that moment I became, for them, slightly less American.”
― Elizabeth Bard, Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes