Liani Lye

“The white American is not innately racist. I sense innate docility. He will follow the law if the leadership tells him to do that. He would not rebel if he thought he'd be punished. But if the laws are flouted and winked at, he'll wink, too.' - interview with Leona Brady”
― Studs Terkel, Race: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American Obsession

“I can hardly speak Korean, but in H Mart it feels like I’m fluent.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Maybe you couldn’t ever owe somebody your life, not really. You couldn’t let anyone else decide what you did with it. You had to live it yourself, as truly as you could.”
― Frances Hardinge, Deeplight

“Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom have endings.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night