Jennifer

“Fear of Flying (Because every time you fly, you land somewhere new and you have to make new friends.) Leave something you love in every city you've lived in. A record player in Shanghai, a kitten in Seattle, your best dresses hanging in a closet in Paris. That way you'll always have a reason to retrace your steps back to old friends. So it means you won't have to stay away forever. Learn to enjoy being alone, appreciate the silence of dinners where an entire roast duck can be gnawed away, cartilage and all, without conversational interruption. You are free and oh-so-mysterious. Think: Friends, who needs friends?”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies

“There are a few times in life when you leap up and the past that you'd been standing on falls away behind you, and the future you mean to land on is not yet in place, and for a moment you're suspended, knowing nothing and no one, not even yourself.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“There's a vein of hopeful cynicism in everything you write. You're trying to believe, but helplessly waiting for the anvil.”
― Emery Lord, The Map from Here to There

“Everything I thought was cool was actually Berlin.”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies