Elizabeth

“While my mother liked cleanliness, I was satisfied to have my presence linger.”
― E. J. Koh, The Magical Language of Others

“You know my grandmothers,” I said, and pointed at my nose, a habit I had picked up when I lived in Japan. “I’m an accumulation of their lives. Whatever I say or do now can give relief to the past—and to them. I don’t believe they’re ever gone.”
― E.J. Koh, The Magical Language of Others

“Sorry, but you caught me in the middle of making spaghetti. Can I ask you to call back later?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“They say a person has so unique a set of meanings we ought to be incapable of understanding each other, yet we speak and teach as if by magic.”
― E.J. Koh, The Magical Language of Others