Claire

“Seeds, blood. How could you fight such hopeless ideas?”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“The story had a stilted feel, and yet while you were reading you felt totally inside its world, a world where reality mirrored the grammar constraints, and what Slavic 101 couldn't name didn't exist.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“It was possible that he was in love with the way she wrote the number two—her parallel lines expressing a kind of free movement inside the invisible box that contained the ideograph’s strokes.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Suryaz and Deme would each need a talisman, an object that smelt lovely, or that felt kind to the hand; such things are little suitcases to put sad feelings in so that they can go away by themselves.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching