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Despite falling short of expectations, could a book, if enjoyed, be considered a good read? Is a good book always a good read?

Over our life span, the right answer will keep changing.

“Solitude sets us free, just as loneliness brings depth to our lives.”

the cafe and nagare being included in family oh.

“We have yet to recover from the scars of the Poppy Wars. You can’t ask us to bleed again.”

this is not looking too hot for her actually like i feel like vaisra is trying to betray her

oh that’s not.

oh my god.

oh so she’s insane now bc kitay making sense

“The point of every lesson does not have to be to destroy.”

“When man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality. […] They worship me whom they believe are gods, not gods themselves.” literally politics rn

insane thing to greet your drug dealer with

bro don’t tell me she’s gonna be w the lore guy

“Should I beat them up” 😭😭

“No, she trusts you. She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”

WHAT.

i have a bad feeling about this

at school is crazy as hell

bro shirley you’re gonna get everyone deported 🫩🫩

“In China, Joseph’s family would outrank the Lums, but here in America, Grace wasn’t sure the same social stratification applied. People treated Joseph with respect to his face, but Grace knew that to many of Chinatown’s residents […] Dr. Joseph Hu was an uppity Shanghainese who didn’t speak their language.”

her first lesbian love being someone who supports her so much in contrast to shirley

seeing lily finally start to accept it is so awesome sauce

“In her imagination, Tommy had been like a matinee idol— sweet-faced and tender. In reality, Tommy was a woman made of flesh and blood, and that frightened Lily most of all.”

“An unfamiliar emotion swelled inside her at this image, a strangely sharp pang for a place she had never visited, for a people she resembled but did not know. As she started blankly down at her textbook, she thought that perhaps it was patriotism, but not for America. For China.”

this is interesting bc i feel like there are so many more canto speakers in sf than mandarin speakers. idt ive ever met another mandarin speaker in sf since i was in high school with fobs 🧍 also i wish socal was just a few hours away on train like there’s not even a way to get there besides driving or flying now

“We’re living in a complicated time. People are afraid of things they don’t understand, and we need to show that we’re Americans first.” okay so why has modern day america regressed to the 1950s.

shirley pmo

“His body was crushed like so much bread dough.” shoutout translator wtf is this line 🫩🫩

holy shit “a butterfly flutters its wings, and somewhere else a house erupts in flames” chanel having the butterfly concept attached to her (shoulder blades) when she first visited ares’ house like she is the butterfly

“my sleeves rolled up to reveal bare wrists, the veins leading up to my heart.” what an interesting twist on the wearing your heart on your sleeve saying