Adelina

“This wouldn't have happened if we were on the same team," I say. I mean for it to sound like an angry jibe, an accusation, but my voice decides to be a traitor and wavers violently.
His gaze swivels to me. He studies my face for a long time. Too long. "You've never wanted to be on my team before.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“At what point, I wonder, staring at the front door as it swings shut one last time, does something become unfixable? At what point is a tapestry riddled with so many holes and loose threads that it's impossible to patch it up again? That it deserves to be thrown away instead?”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“The more I speak, the angrier I get, and the steadier my voice grows. I think of all the people like me, like Lucy Goh or Evie Wu or even the young woman from the restaurant with Chanel's father. The neglected ones, the unlucky ones, the ones who want more than they've been given. The ones who have to crawl and scrape and fight their way up from the very bottom, who have to game a system designed for them to lose. Always the first to be punished and blamed when things go wrong. Always the last to be seen, to be saved.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I make a silent vow to myself that one day, strangers like that will notice me as well. I will not stay in the corners, feeling sad and silly and small, my pride eating away at itself.
No, I will do something great, and they will all know my name.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun