Robert

“His parents, the first ones to go to college, the first ones to leave. They had come to America with nothing but their educations, and they had built a life here, of dreams and hope and determination.
He could not be anything less than exceptional.”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“I'm a liar, but I'm telling you the truth about this: I want to stay on the road. I want to go as far as these wheels and gears can take me.”
― K.C. Jones, Black Tide

“Loss was the hesitation in his voice when he spoke his mother tongue, the myths he did not know, a childhood that felt so vast and
alien from his parents' that he did not know how to cross it.”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief