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

“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

“But all I could think about was that lonely dog, left alone to guard an empty gas station on Christmas day.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

“Tress settled down, thinking about people and how the holes in them could be filled by such simple things, like time, or a few words at the right moment. Or, apparently, a cannonball. What, other than a person, could you build up merely by caring?”
― Brandon Sanderson