Michelle

“Janloon was a study in contradictions that could befuddle even someone born there: a bubbling, dirty stew and a modern, glamorous metropolis at the same time, a place overly conscious of trying to be a world-class city, despite being at its core a system of clan fiefdoms.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade City

“A forest takes care of itself, even as it builds the local climate it needs to survive.”
― Richard Powers

“Boxes of fireworks - she remembered them filling her childhood, at every occasion she could think of, gods, where had the Popisho fireworks gone? Mad swirls of silver-blue lightning and crimson stars. A whole sky of melting yellow moons that trickled into their hair and faces and turned into caramel.”
― Leone Ross, Popisho

“Her heart, kept for so long in a little glass case, begins to open up, crack by crack.”
― Pim Wangtechawat, The Moon Represents My Heart