“From the ground up, I was going to detox my identity of any and everything that someone else put there without my blessing.”
― Fresh Off the Boat
― Fresh Off the Boat
“Just like Trump, America loves to lie about itself, and Americans love to eat those lies up—anything that obliterates our sins, that tells us everything will be okay, that makes us the infallible, gallant protagonist in the story of Earth. We must root out the assumptions we swallow as fact and the facts we deny. We must not just examine but actively counter the disastrous, narcissistic death grip of mediocre white men on our past century’s art, media, and politics. We must start telling true stories about who we are, who is free and who is not, what we are doing to the planet.”
― The Witches are Coming
― The Witches are Coming
“I don’t subscribe to the idea that there’s one objective way to be excellent, I don’t like when an international class of moneyed people dictates the way we present local cultures,”
― Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China
― Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China
“You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Throne of Glass
― Throne of Glass
“There will always be people in life who tell you no and sometimes it’s because they have nothing else to do that day except exert their power, and if you let their no stop you, you’ve just validated their opinion of you as worth more than your own.”
― I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction
― I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction
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