Amy Qiu

“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Want and intelligence,’ the historian had written, ‘is a dangerous combination.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated