Lilly

“The alternative to appropriation is a world where wire pean people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for Europe PN. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don't you? I'm terrified about world, and I don't wanna live in that world, and as a mixed race person, I literally don't exist in it. My dad, who I barely knew, was Jewish. My mom was an American born Korean. I was raised by Korean immigrant grandparents in Koreatown, Los Angeles. And as any mixed race person will tell you—to behalf of two things is to be whole of nothing. And, by the way, I don't own or have a particularly rich understanding of the references of Jewishness or Koreanness because I happen to be those things. But if Ichigo had been fucking Korean, it wouldn't be a problem for you I guess?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“They all live good lives because they are good people, not because they are following some imposed moral code.”
― Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival

“I don't know, it's like I look at you and all the sonnets start making sense.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Sometimes, he would make a villain of her and imagine ways that she had slighted him: that time she had turned away from him; that time she had avoided his eyes. But she hadn't done those things -- it would have been almost better if she had.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow