Janine

“Her father's hands, holding the chopsticks, were slightly unsteady - something she had first noticed years ago when he took her out to lunch, but tonight, it made her heart clench and tremble.”
― An Yu, Braised Pork

“Boys get to keep that confidence [as they age], I think; girls have to give it back like it never really belonged to them.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary

“I had always felt, ever since Jamie and I got together, that it was too good, that we were too lucky. That happiness like this couldn't possibly last: we were using up more than our allotted quota of the stuff, and at some point someone had to notice.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“She could not say why; he just seemed like the kind of man who healed, rather than wounded.”
― An Yu, Braised Pork