Esther

“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

“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

“Palmer was beautiful, though she seemed to have absolutely no understanding of this fact. She had long, thick blond hair that would be four shades lighter by the end of the summer. She was a head shorter than me, and whip-thin, with the ability to eat us all under the table, and she seemed to laugh more than most people...Growing up with four older siblings—two of them boys—meant Palmer was great at this kind of stuff. She’d been the one who taught us how to tap a keg, pack a bowl, and play quarters, beirut, and beer pong. She could change a tire and throw a punch and had learned how to drive when she was something like fourteen.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything