Angy

“You can't stop someone from making their own choices, you know. It doesn't work that way. And even if it did, it damages you. You can't let yourself keep giving and giving and giving to someone who stopped caring. I've always worried about you making that mistake, but I thought--well, I thought I'd set an example for you. Because if I wanted one thing for you it was that you'd always know how much you're worth. The world will tell you otherwise because you're a girl and you're not white and you're softhearted, but you're allowed to keep things for yourself and to say something isn't good enough for you. You're allowed to want more. You're allowed to be angry.”
― 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

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

“We had tried to choose living over dying and it had turned out to be a horrible mistake.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart