“She hadn't realized how long it takes to become somebody else, or how lonely it can be living in a world not meant for you.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“It’s not that I want exactly this, to have a husband or home security system that, for the length of our marriage, never goes off. It’s that there are gray, anonymous hours like this. Hours when I am desperate, when I am ravenous, when I know how a star becomes a void.”
― Luster
― Luster
“Isn’t that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“Despite everything my father had done, I was still so eager to be claimed by him. To be protected by him. To the world he was a bad man. To me, he was my dad who did a bad thing. I was still trying to figure out what it meant to love someone who had done such a bad thing, but I did love him. And that was enough for me to show up, and say so to his face.”
― Somebody's Daughter
― Somebody's Daughter
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