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“I promise I will never stop sending you letters of love, Astrid. Until my dying day.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

“Art kept my spirit alive. Expressing myself, whether by drawing, writing or dancing, was an assertion of my existence that enabled me to connect to something deeper than simply what I was expected to produce in the world. Later, when I felt too blocked to create, consuming art broke my sense of isolation and helped me see parts of myself in work created by others. When I forgot who I was, creating art helped me find my way back. Art was my entry point to learning how to love myself.”
― Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

“I was so absorbed in the things that I couldn’t change, I forgot the most important thing.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“The familiar sensation of numbness, the armor I wore to shield myself as a girl, returned.”
― Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us