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“In a way, he supposed, it was inevitable for immigrants to become child versions of themselves, stripped of their verbal fluency and, with it, a layer of their competence and maturity.”
― Angie Kim, Miracle Creek

“They wanted to “fall” in love—that was the American way—whereas the idea of falling anywhere, with anyone, had never once appealed to Lina.”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised

“A portrait reveals the inner life, the secret life of the person. That’s what painters try to capture. But it’s one thing to hunt it down in someone else, and a whole other thing to turn the gun on ourselves.”
― Louise Penny, A Great Reckoning

“All through the hotel, beds scraped, feet thumped to the floor. The future dead, rising to forestall.”
― Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter