Diane

“The shape of who you are is an image of heaven and earth," I whispered to the baby, Sun Simiao's words quoted in a book Nurse Jeongsu had gifted me with, an encyclopedia I still perused every year.”
― June Hur, The Red Palace

“Far from being a curse, uncertainty can be a source of hope.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“Since East Turkestan is home to large deposits of oil and natural gas, as well as mineral deposits and vast cotton fields that all add to the [Chinese Communist Party's} coffers, the stakes of a potential independence movement in the Uyghur region were high.”
― Gulchehra Hoja, A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs

“Confidence is necessary in life - to leave your parents' home, to begin a new job, to travel. But too much confidence leads to complacency, and to believing that my way is the only way, that my worldview is the view.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, Miss Morgan's Book Brigade