I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy. Is that right?
“What more can we want as writers than such immortality? Don't ghosts just want to be remembered?”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“You can’t stop a country from happening, Good Stab.” “But we were already a nation,” he said up to me. “We didn’t ask you to come.”
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
― The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
“Having a mother helps you believe that everybody wants to hear every little thing you think. Having a mother helps you speak without thinking. It allows you to trust in your most awful self, to yell and scream and cry, knowing that your mother will still love you by the end of it.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“I am in awe of her fire. Even if I'm the one she sets on fire.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“The cultural constructions are clear: so many Chinese ghosts are hungry, angry, voiceless women. In taking Athena's legacy, I've added one to their ranks.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
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