Robin

“Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“but I'm starting to think that maybe the gist of life is learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
― Julie Murphy, Ramona Blue

“The sensation of having already met someone, or what the French called deja vu, the feeling of having already seen something. There was probably a scientific explanation for it, but the older she got, the more she was inclined to give ino the the feeling that these moments were glimpses into a world greater than this physical one. It was as if there were cycles that repeated themselves over and over, but most people never saw the repetition; they were too deeply enmeshed in their own path to see.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“Ever since he returned from the war, he'd felt as if part of him were still back in China, but he wasn't there anymore. Those army hospitals had long been dismantled; those boys he treated had returned to their homes- or at least they were beyond suffering. And here he was now: in this gaily colored and dramatically lit nightclub in America, sitting across from his American wife. The music was loud and brash; the smell of perfume and cigarettes lay heavy on the air. He lifted his mai tai to his lips and took another sip of his drink, the condensation dripping down the side of his hand like an electric shock.

Wake up. You are here.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club