Michelle

“you cannot control
how others think and live,
but you can be intentional
about the energy you put into the world

some may misunderstand you,
but what matters most is that you
understand you”
― Yung Pueblo, Clarity & Connection

“Janet encouraged me to let in the problems of the world enough not to paralyze me but to galvanize me to do more. As I made my way through the ensuing years, I would think about these two words so often--paralyze and galvanize--their strong and opposing forces, and the space between them.”
― Tallu Schuyler Quinn, What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death

“The memories I stored, I could not let festered. Could not let trauma infiltrate and spread, to spoil and render them useless. They were moments to be tended. The culture we shared was active, effervescent in my gut and in my genes, and I had to seize it, foster it so it did not die in me. So that I could pass it on someday. The lessons she imparted, the proof of her life lived on in me, in every move and deed. I was what she left behind. If I could not be with my mother, I would be her.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I stay and listen to KK Wong, the writer and director, take questions…I want to cry for the characters, for my mother, for all of us in the audience that bear witness and mourn the generations of trauma handed down. I am beginning to realize that we are all raised by children. Children that are shaped by their own traumas, some of them unable to forget or overcome what happened to them before they passed it along.”
― Anna Qu, Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor