Joshane Sablay

“And like blue eyes and whiteness, eventually I learned the Blue Eyes White Dragon was simply a construct too. A piece of flimsy card stock, its value ascribed by a mysterious higher power. I could go online and buy a million Blue Eyes White Dragon cards, and similarly, I could walk down the street of our suburb and see blue-eyed white girls everywhere, available a dime a dozen.”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“She felt as if she had just had a dream, but the coffee in front of her was empty. Her mouth still had a sweet taste in it.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“Our Vietnamese, a time capsule, a work of where your education ended, ashed. Ma, to speak in our mother tongue is to speak only partially in Vietnamese, but entirely in war.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“To open a mouth, in speech, is to leave the bones, which remain untold. It is a beautiful country because you are still breathing.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous