May

“She was her own spectacular individual. Perhaps I was still sanctimoniously belittling the two roles she was ultimately most proud of, unable to accept that the same degree of fulfillment may await those who wish to nurture and love as those to seek to earn and create. Her art was the love that beat on in her loved ones, a contribution to the world that could be just as monumental as a song or a book.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Have you ever noticed that if there’s a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Assimilation was not a problem to be solved but the problem itself.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“Friendship rests on the presumption of reciprocity, of drifting in and out of one another’s lives, with occasional moments of wild intensity.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True