“I believed that a life has no value if a person is not a useful member of society. I was convinced that humans are born in order to be of service to the world and to others.”
― Les délices de Tokyo
― Les délices de Tokyo
“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
“Not every girl has a rape story. But almost every girl has an “I’m not sure, I didn’t like it, but I can’t quite call it rape” story.”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
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