Esther

“It’s such a suffocating thought—that everything I will ever feel and know and accomplish must begin and end with my own mind.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“Mama lingers to offer me her usual parting words of advice: Don’t sleep later than eleven or you die, don’t drink cold water or you die, watch out for child molesters on your way to school, eat ginger, lot of ginger, remember check air quality index every day...”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I’ve never known how to witness dusk without feeling a dull sense of grief: another day gone, another day lost where I’m still the same.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“I am almost lost without the need to lie.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few