Angy

“I envied and feared my mother’s ability to keep matters private, as every secret I tried to hold close ate away at me. She possessed a rare talent for keeping secrets, even from us. She did not need anyone. She could surprise you with how little she needed you. All those years she instructed me to save 10 percent of myself like she did, I never knew it meant she had also been keeping a part of herself from me too.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I came to realize that while I struggled to be good, I could excel at being courageous.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I was not the kind of person people did this sort of thing for. Like elaborate promposals, or surprise birthday parties--I was not first in anyone's life except for my mother's. I was not someone about whom people sent time cataloguing my favorite tea or fruit or crackers, thinking about what sort of gesture might mean something to me.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, When We Were Infinite

“I stopped posing with the peace sign in photos, fearing I looked like an Asian tourist. When my peers started dating, I developed a complex that the only reason someone would like me was if they had
yellow fever, and if they didn’t like me, I tortured myself over whether it
was because of the crude jokes boys in my class would make about Asians
having sideways pussies and loving you long time”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart