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“I don't think either of us understood how much I loved her. It seemed like there'd be enough time to sort it out.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

“What was it like for them to leave home and cross the Pacific, with only the haziest plans for return? In the absence of available connections, they held onto an imaginary Taiwan, more an abstraction—a beacon, a phantom limb—than an actual island. The available technology delivered them there only on special occasions. So, they searched for traces of home in the faces of their classmates; they heard it wafting above the din when they shopped for groceries.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“For a brief spell, my father toyed with anglicizing his name and asked to be called Eric, though he soon realized that assimilation of that order didn’t suit him. You were free to name your children after U.S. presidents. Or you might name them something unpronounceable, since they would never be president anyway.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“For once a story is told, it cannot be called back. Once told, it is loose in the world.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative