Isla

“Every time she tried to branch out to new projects, they kept insisting that Asian was her brand, was what her audience expected. They never let her talk about anything other than being an immigrant, other than the fact that half her family died in Cambodia, that her dad killed himself on the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen. Racial trauma sells, right? They treated her like a museum”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“...real motivation was purely selfish. I was on a quest to help myself. We are drawn to this particular profession because we are damaged - we study psychology to heal ourselves.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“She had a fire insider her.
She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her.
The she realised.
A fire has no motive.
Only she could have that.
The power was hers.”
― Matt Haig

“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library