Yasmin Yoon

“While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life’s full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.”
― Nabokov V., Лолита

“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

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

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