Amanda Lumbad

“I’d found my person.
She was the foundation. She was the thing that all other things are built on. Everything was secondary to being with her. It didn’t matter where I worked or if I liked my job, where I lived or how many kids I had. My happiness, my sanity, my well-being – it all started with her. And now that I knew that, I didn’t want to just be her boyfriend – I wanted everything.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone

“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I'll orbit around you and be your universe, because you've always been my sun.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone

“You've been foreign all your life. When you finally leave, all you're hoping for is a more bearable kind of foreignness.”
― Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart