Hannah Liu

“As if trying her best to mend a broken friendship from her childhood, she immersed herself into the books, day and night, never leaving their side. It didn't take long for their treasured relationship to rekindle. The books welcomed her back with open arms without judging the person she'd become, and accepted her for who she was.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“For however one may come in later years to reassess one’s achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one’s life has contained a moment or two or real satisfaction”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of The Floating World

“Our goal should be interdependence: to be part of a community where rescue is viewed not as exceptional but as something that we owe each other.”
― Kelly Hayes, Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

“And yet even that awful memory, which felt like it would crush my heart if only I would let it, the memory of that night, changed color day by day, so that when it snuck up on me, it took less and less time for my heart to settle down, until I finally felt the vortex in my heart growing smaller. It was bizarre to witness such vividly painful emotions, profound enough it felt like I could touch them, transform so completely.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night