Connie

“You must claim America, she said. America will not give itself to you. If you do not claim America, if America is not in your heart, America will throw you into a concentration camp or a reservation or a plantation.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

“...while, in vicious arguments that ended with both of them crying, and of the two, it was he who cried the most— he sobbed with rage, with resentment, with shame, and then his face would harden as though the tears had settled like sediment onto his skin; it’s a commonplace analogy really, but after crying, his skin looked denser and darker.”
― Alejandro Zambra, My Documents

“So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was dead.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer