‘All stories grow from a seed of truth,’ Truyde said. ‘They are knowledge after figuration.’
“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
“He had needed someone to see him, to understand; to astonish him, like the concert.”
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“Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task.”
― Popisho
― Popisho
“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.”
― Jade City
― 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.”
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
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