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“One minute until the email from Harvard arrives. Until I can know for certain if I was accepted or not. If I'm good enough or not.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“I’ve always wanted that: to be looked up at, to be known by people I’ve never even spoken to before, to be special, distinct, standing up on the tallest, brightest platform. But only now do I realize that when you’re out in the open, alone under the lights, and everyone else is in the darkness, you make for such a terribly easy target.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“If I’d kissed you,” he goes on, “you would have wanted me for an
afternoon, and I would have wanted you for the rest of my life.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“Clearly, they all thought I was worse than them.
So I had to be better. I had to be so good they couldn’t ignore me anymore. If I wanted to be loved, I had to best them all”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen