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"“I have known her. June supplies the beautiful incandescent flesh, the fulgurant voice, the abysmal eyes, the drugged gestures, the presence, the body, the incarnate image of our imaginings. What are we? Only the creators. She is.”

Kok aku pengen nangis sih bacanya :'

“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.”

OH MY GODDD, JUNEE!!

it’s getting sadder each page.. I couldn’t hold my tears.

huff 😔 it’s such a tiring story with difficult plots

i am still in page 18, but i know im gonna be crying in few more pages.. i’ve read books like this, but i know im not gonna be easy with theme associated with mothers. i have mine as well, and is currently sick. i hope this can remind me how to appreciate their presence and love them even more.

Queeny Chang rasanya mengajak saya menjelajah masa lalu; bagaimana keluarganya yang Tionghoa dan ayahnya Tjong A Fie, yang berasal dari Tiongkok dengan ibunya yang merupakan Chinese peranakan asal Medan, hidup di akhir tahun 1800-an. Sebagai anak yg dibesarkan dgn kekayaan, rasanya seperti melihat bagaimana orang masa lalu bekerja keras untuk meraih sukses dan apa yang mereka lakukan dengan kekayaan itu.