Leann J.

“It arrived. The brightness between us.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Brightness Between Us

“This little book took me eight years to earn.
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United States of America
Was it worth the last eight years of my mother's life?
And what sort of daughter does that
make me?”
― Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

“The space between two shores is the ocean... and being caught in between feels like drowning”
― Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

“Your father—my God, you were his pride and joy. He came home from work to feed you every lunchtime, even if it meant he barely got a chance to eat his own meal. He rocked you to sleep at night. He clipped your tiny nails so carefully that you laughed when he did it. I could not believe he ever thought he would be a bad parent.

You were my world. But to your father, Salahudin? You were the solar system. Bigger. The universe itself. “He will be a neurosurgeon,” your father said. “He will be a writer. He will be an architect.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage