Yasmin Yoon

“The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment...Held up against certain ideals of success, his life has been a deep disappointment. But he can also see that it is, in the end, no great achievement simply to fixate on the failure. There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one’s life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Rain turned to sleet, sleet to snow.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“We know by now that Asiatic femininity in the Western racial imagination has never needed the biological or the natural to achieve a full, sensorial, agile, and vivid presence. Asiatic femininity has always been prosthetic. The dream of the yellow woman subsumes a dream about the inorganic. She is an, if not the, original cyborg.”
― Anne Anlin Cheng, Ornamentalism

“Therefore I will be quiet,
comforted that I am dust.”
― Anonymous