Harshini Agilan

“I am not Jessica Chen. And maybe Jessica Chen herself isn't either. Maybe nobody is. The very idea of her is a construct, a myth, a distraction, the dream we're forever reaching toward but can never equite grasp.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“I’ve spent my whole life on my hands and knees, clamoring for crumbs of love. I don’t know if there will ever come a time I am not hungry for it.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“That's the one thing I've worked for my entire life -- to be someone who matters. That's why my parents moved to this country. That's my purpose. If I can't do it, then what's the point of anything? What's the point of me? What possible value could I provide?”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“Somewhere, across time and space, there's a version of me and a version of you, wearing matching rings, tangled up in front of a fireplace, together. I have to believe that's true.
In another life, it would have been us, but not in this one.
I can't have you in the way you deserve to be had.
Know how desperately I love you.
Know how sorry I am.
And know that I'm doing the best that I can.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain