Janice Kim

“There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternate choice has been made, or an accident has turned out differently. Everyone has duplicates of themselves in these other worlds. Different selves with different lives, different luck.
Variations.”
― E. Lockheart

“Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Mama."
It made my skin crawl the way she said it. Like you'd say "Tornado," if one was bearing down on you.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“Nothing belongs to you. It didn’t matter that Grandma gave the cookbook to me. All Mama had to do was hold it in her hands and it was hers.”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things