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“I trace my birth as an Angry Little Asian Girl to the dawn of puberty”
― Julia Lee

“You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“To live as a minoritized, nonwhite person in this country is to exist in a perpetual state of shame... You will never belong, You will never be enough, You will never be American—by which, we mean you will never be white”
― Julia Lee

“Impermanence can also be a gift. Create nothing lasting. Leave nothing behind. Live for the present. In beauty, until it ends." Jacques exhaled smoke thoughtfully. "In Latin, cadere means to fall: It's the root of 'decadent.' Not as we think of the word now, but a beautiful way to fall. A slow fall, willingly. Like fashion. It never lasts, but for the time it's there, the beauty of it is something we'd die for, though we can never hold on to it.”
― C. W. Gortner