Megan Xing

“Stories were living inside us. I think we were born to tell our stories. After we died, our stories would survive. Maybe it was our stories that fed the universe the energy it needed to keep on giving life.

Maybe all we were meant to do on this earth was to keep on telling stories. Our stories—and the stories of the people we loved.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Sometimes you’ll feel the loneliness of exile. And sometimes you’ll feel the happiness of belonging.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“My quarrel with the English language has been that the language reflected none of my experience. But now I began to see the matter in quite another way. If the language was not my own, it might be the fault of the language; but it might also be my fault. Perhaps the language was not my own because I had never attempted to use it, had only learned to imitate it. If this were so, then it might be made to bear the burden of my experience if I could find the stamina to challenge it, and me, to such a test.”
― James Baldwin

“I have manipulated everyone
who has ever fallen in love with me
to fall in love with me
and that either makes me a very good
liar
or a very unlovable human being.”
― Sade Andria Zabala