Sarah
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All of us who worked at the company saw each other whether we wanted to or not, and we were all workers; what was the good in being so hard on one another?
“The downside to the term tiger parenting entering the mainstream vocabulary is that it gives a cute name to what is actually a painful and demoralizing existence. It also feeds into the perception that all Asian kids are book smart because their parents make it so. Well, guess what. It’s not true. Not all our parents are tiger parents, tiger parenting doesn’t always work, and not all Asian kids are good at school. In fact, not all Asian kids are any one thing. To be young and Asian in America often means fighting a multifront war against sameness.”
― Eat a Peach
― Eat a Peach
“I’m expecting to open this book in ten years and cringe like I’m staring at a picture of myself with a bad haircut. I’m looking forward to it.”
― Eat a Peach
― Eat a Peach
“Excited, afraid, homeless, fat, dying, but at least if we made that first step we had somewhere to go, we had a purpose. And we really didn’t have anything better to do at half past three on a Thursday afternoon than to start a 630-mile walk.”
― The Salt Path
― The Salt Path
“In politics, she’d discovered that so few systems worked—but libraries did. The world was not yet wholly bereft of things to believe in.”
― Waiting for a Star to Fall
― Waiting for a Star to Fall
“I’d like to shout down through a hole in the ceiling of time and advise the people of a hundred years ago: If you want your secrets kept, whisper them into the ear of your dearest, most trusted friend. Do not trust the keyboard and screen. If you do, we’ll know everything.”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
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