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?
“China was not the totalitarian state of my London friends’ imagination, but neither was it open, and for a newcomer it was impossible to gauge the boundaries. Even the locals found it confusing. The juddering old framework of the state economy was falling apart, along with the political controls of the Maoist era. No one really knew the rules. The whole country, waking up after the nightmare of Maoism, was making it up as it went along.”
― Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
― Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
“...it's most important to accept that your yoga poses may not look like everyone else's. That's okay. Just adapt the poses to your current state of being.”
― Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body
― Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body
“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
“The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when you tell them to stop, they don’t hear you.”
― MaddAddam
― MaddAddam
“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
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