Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.
“Her heart, kept for so long in a little glass case, begins to open up, crack by crack.”
― The Moon Represents My Heart
― The Moon Represents My Heart
“Don’t trust anyone who keep telling you what’s wrong with you,”
― Popisho
― Popisho
“The first mark she left upon the world, long before she knew the truth, that ideas are so much wilder than memories, that they long and look for ways of taking root”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I only had the morning to get my work done. I had to be really efficient. I'd let the others take the easy questions in class and wait to answer the hardest ones. I'm Asian and a woman, which shouldn't matter but did anyway. It was clear sometimes that no matter how hard I worked, I didn't qualify to be a member of the in club.”
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
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