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“It doesn't take much to convince yourself that you're doing okay, just some discretionary income and a regularity to your days.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

“It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

“Chona had never been one to play by the rules of American society. She did not experience the world as most people did. To her, the world was not a china closet where you admire this and don’t touch that. Rather, she saw it as a place where every act of living was a chance for tikkun olam, to improve the world. The tiny woman with the bad foot was all soul.”
― James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

“By the time I hung up, long past midnight, I would feel both feasted and empty. It had been years since I thought about that time. Though I loved the sudden, hard clasp of intimacy, I would become dizzy from the divulging, the fervor of psychic bloodletting.”
― Ling Ma