Sophia

“What can you do with the truth that everyone’s a little sad and a little alone.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“I wonder how it would be if I let go and yielded myself to depravity.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“The whole world was dancing and so were we. We exchanged another smile and I marvelled how, in all the stories of the gold-paved Mei Guo and the dangerous Mei Guo, no one in China knew about the lights of America, about how they were so delightful that they could stop us in the middle of the street, in the middle of our lives and our worries, in the middle of strangers living stranger lives, all just to fill us with music and hope.”
― Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country

“Their grandchildren will grow up so middle-class and affluent that the idea of deprivation will have no place in their lives, will seem to belong not to their country, but a much poorer neighbour like Cambodia or Bangladesh.”
― Tash Aw, Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family