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“I felt safe with you, and in the end that wasn't enough. I'm sorry.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

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“They left their daughters to grow into their hollowed Chinese, plugging English into whatever sprang a leak, stumbling on the wrong sounds, chasing intelligibility--but as Jade insisted, at least their English was beyond reproach. No trace of an accent, no problem. A hallmark of their success. A hallmark of their loss.”
― C.K. Chau, Good Fortune

tags: immigrant-experience

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“There are people in our lives who fill up our whole attention, but they're still only temporary. And there are others who settle into our hearts and minds comfortably and never leave”
― Beth Revis, Give the Dark My Love

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“This is what I never knew about loss – it’s also about what you gain. You carry a weight that you never had before. It’s never behind you. It’s alongside you.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Last Night

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“That's not a particularly useful measure of your enemies, motive. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that harm done with explicit conscious intention of doing another person harm accounts for about two percent of all harm inflicted. That descriptor pretty much only applies to dictators in banana republics, serial killers, and PE teachers.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night

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