Yasmin Zulhaime

“This is the price of leaving: you will always be late to the news, you will always miss the important and unexpected moments of the lives you left behind, and you will always come back to a place that went on changing without you.”
― Florentyna Leow, How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart

“You always knew I had no talent for subtlety. With me, if it rained, it poured. But it was too late by the time I understood: we got along because we were both sentimental people. You just hid it far, far better.”
― Florentyna Leow, How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart

“Pleas for help, prayers that didn't work out. Pacing around in mental circles like this made sense to me in a strange and twisted way, girded with the internal logic of the anxious and depressed.”
― Florentyna Leow, How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart

“Some days it was like a muscle: once I'd warmed up, my tongue ran along nicely. Some days I didn't even have to try, as it flowed out of me like a fountain; others days it was like trying to run across a field of nettles in shoes three sizes too big.”
― Florentyna Leow, How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart