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

“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.”
― Jean Kwok, Searching for Sylvie Lee

“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

“Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task.”
― Leone Ross, Popisho