“Every time she tried to branch out to new projects, they kept insisting that Asian was her brand, was what her audience expected. They never let her talk about anything other than being an immigrant, other than the fact that half her family died in Cambodia, that her dad killed himself on the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen. Racial trauma sells, right? They treated her like a museum”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“Get inside! You're bleeding!"
"I will not bleed any less indoors, you utter madwoman.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
"I will not bleed any less indoors, you utter madwoman.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“This industry is built on silencing us, stomping us into the ground, and hurling money at white people to produce racist stereotypes of us.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
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