Nats

“You are just in the same room with me & my unsweet, uncharming, completely uninteresting sadness. I wish it could unbelong itself from me, unstick from my face.”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

“Sometimes understanding comes to you not through thought, but through this throbbing of the heart, this tenderness in the chest that hurts.”
― Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

“I wish I could feel your warmth, as easily
as I feel his. But I don't. I feel fear. I hear fear telling me I'm

a body, that's all. & the boy I love is a body. & bodies die. No
other world, no return to this world in another form. (Annihilation.)

It isn't that I didn't think these were the facts before. It's now,
he's here. I have to try harder. Believe the facts could be

at least a little wrong. Please, something. Some
magic, real as this ripe life with him.”
― Chen Chen

“white people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other