Janice Pang > Recent Status Updates

"Where I am is called here."

"Family is now something I have created – and not just something I was born into."

"Family is now something I have created – and not just something I was born into."

"Are there not indeed enough 'signs of the times' to indicate that a new start is needed?"

"Now that voice was mingling with other voices, with memories that, when the dust settled, would form his story."

"Now that voice was mingling with other voices, with memories that, when the dust settled, would form his story."

'After all, you're an advertising man. Cobble some principles together, invent some essence.'

"Are you your body? she wanted to ask.
And are you your body, his defiant eyes answered."

"Only cowards love from a distance."

"...there were no people left in Germany, only professions."

"How quickly her nightmares became facts."

"You asked for a second chance/& are given a mouth to empty out of."

"My mother said I could be anything/I wanted—but I chose to live."

"...love is what binds us to the earth."

"A human being could use another human being in the meantime."

"The ether is knives being thrown.
The ether is blood surging back."

"I pressed the button that changes time. Summer at last."

"But pretty much the whole time I was there, I was still trying to get elsewhere."

"The next time I was in London, I went to find the house your ex-wife had live in for, well I didn't know if it was for longest, but I knew it was for happiest."

"That's what public library means: something communal."

"And I want it to be about voice, not image, because everything's image these days and I have a feeling we're getting further and further away from human voices..."

"Natalie Blake had completely forgotten what it was like to be poor. It was a language she'd stopped being able to speak, or even to understand."

"It seemed that Natalie Blake and Francesco De Angelia had opposite understandings of this word 'choice.' Both believed their own interpretation to be objectively considered and in no way the product of their contrasting upbringings."

"Her phone rang. She answered it and called somebody 'Baby.' She turned right. Another life."

"He hurried to the stairs, and was a few steps down when he heard a hud on the carpet above as she went down on her knees, and he knew he was meant to feel heavy, but the truth was he felt like a man undergoing some not-yet-invented process called particle transfer, wonderfully, blissfully light."

"But I believe in the people, you see, Felix. I believe in them. Not that it's done me any good, but I do. I really do.

“In every instance in which the State has consigned the vulnerable to the status of Nobody, The People have asserted that they are, in fact, Somebody. In doing so, they offer hope that another world is indeed possible, that empires eventually fall, and that freedom is closer than we think.”