Nida Lo

“You have survived everything you have been through, and you will survive this too. Stay for the person you will become. You are more than a bad day, or week, or month, or year, or even a decade. You are a future of multifarious possibility. You are another self at a point in future time looking back in gratitude that this lost and former you held on. Stay.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“It was typically Hmong for patients to appear passively obedient - thus protecting their own dignity by concealing their ignorance and their doctor's dignity by acting deferential - and then, as soon as they left the hospital, to ignore everything to which they had supposedly assented.”
― Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated