Nicole

“For a while, you were convinced that you would one day write the saddest story ever.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“the dilemma of life: you have to find meaning, but by the same time, you have to accept the reality. How to handle the contradiction is a challenge to everyone of us. What do you think?”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir

“Or maybe, at that age, time moves fast; you’re so desperate for action that you forget to remember things as they happen.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir

“the idea of delayed reciprocity. You give expecting to receive. Yet we often give and receive according to intermittent, sometimes random intervals. That time lag is where a relationship emerges. Perhaps gifts serve political ends. But Mauss also believed that they strengthened the bonds between people and communities. Your obligation isn’t just to repay the gift according to a one-to-one ratio. You’re beholden to the “spirit of the gift,” a kind of shared faith. Every gesture carries a desire for connection, expanding one’s ring of associations.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True