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“I wonder why it was so easy for me to tell you [...] I guess because you're not one of the main characters in my life anymore...”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

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“When the future is without hope, the present tastes appallingly bitter.”
― Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

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“Names are indelible markers of our histories. When we are asked to change our names, we are being asked to erase our histories. But names are more than this, too - they move across our relations. The difficulties in pronouncing our names can create intimate moments, can move casual encounters to sudden struggles to listen and understand each other. our names are offerings for these intimacies. When a stranger finds our names too difficult or unintelligible to even try to pronounce, we have learned all we need to know about them.”
― Y-Dang Troeung, Landbridge: life in fragments

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“Know that there is no demand, no pressure, to speak or not to speak. To not speak does not mean you have some kind of debilitating silence, or that you are shattered within. It is possible to speak through silence, to use the pieces of our fragmented past to make new worlds.”
― Y-Dang Troeung, Landbridge: life in fragments

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“Since your birth, especially, I've wanted to believe that people of many backgrounds can find points of commonality in a world of hardened divisions, previous moments of recognition and intimacy across differences, and so begin the necessarily hard work of authentically seeing and hearing one another. Of course, I want to believe that reading and discussing books can play a part in this. But I also want to avoid imagining easy answers to the intricacies of the world, or being blind to persistent hierarchies of power. I want to understand the unspoken sources of wealth, and our often-unacknowledged implication in history. Today, I am someone who can find himself in contexts unfamiliar to many people of my background. But I am also someone who cannot allow such inclusion to blind me to deeper truths.”
― David Chariandy, I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

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