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“Because the secret of everyone who comes to London—who comes to any big city—is that they came here because they did not feel normal, back at home.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be Famous

“I am a composite of the women I have loved. I am built and reconstituted from my memories of them: words and embraces exchanged, the smell of their hair and the soap smoothed into their skin.”
― Rachel Vorona Cote, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

“You wish your face was more—more, something. You don’t know what. Maybe not more. Less. Less flat. Less delicate. More rugged. Your jawline more defined. This face that feels like a mask, that has never felt quite right on you. That reminds you, at odd times, and often after two to four drinks, that you’re Asian. You are Asian! Your brain forgets sometimes. But then your face reminds you.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“Who gets to be an American? What does an American look like?”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown