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Wait is this turning into corporate espionage?

“Don’t ask, because you don’t actually want to know, because everything in life that other people want to give you is so uncertain, and you don’t want to give the a chance to conclusively say no.”

“People instance at ICE facilities” Is horrifying

“‘How she-you will long for worlds that no longer exist, for countries that only exist in your memories, how you’ve had years to come to terms with the tension that sits in your belly when you think about the homes you’ve left behind, how you have changed enough to miss America, now, and you can bear the loss of one homeland but not two. How to explain she would become a foreigner.’”

So what is overridden in reintegration? Who is replaced?

If the instance process happens when you move borders, does it happen between places that used to be together? Or does it follow modern borders?

“Good food is just the beginning of a trail that leads back to a person whose story is usually worth telling.”

So it’s reversed now. The joys of youth and the stress of aging

Is she gonna turn Asian and Maggie white because of the blood?

The metaphor of the candle burning just smoke but there’s still a little wick left is cute

Rose started the subreddit!!! Wtfff

I’m getting secondhand cringe from the parasocialness

“Cookbooks are living traditions. They reflect back to us who we are, as individuals, as a culture.”

Thomas martrying himself for Andrew who hasn’t even asked is just so sad and so relatable

Telling someone they have to be strong because they’re the strong one is fucked

Yeah yeah edgelord

That sounds like asexuality, my guy

“The terrible became ordinary, to thundering applause.”

While I’ve never gone to a community meeting about public space or urban planning, it feels a lot like other nonprofit meetings I have done to

Fuck am I gonna cry?

There was a film library at my college, and I adored volunteering with them. I got to review some reels before they got digitized. I remember wearing those white gloves and threading the film through machines to check them. Fun stuff

“Love doesn’t give a person permission to control another.”

“Some wounds run so deep that logic doesn’t work. I know this from my own history.”

“‘It’s not a child’s job to fulfill the dreams of their parents.’”

“Hyukjoon hadn’t needed her permission. He’d been planning on taking everything he wanted from her all along.”

Not Fanny assuming she’d move to New York with Linli

Seriously how is this therapy? It’s just physical assault

“‘ I’ve been to a lot of therapy myself. Not that it’s changed how I feel about my dad. He’ll never change. He’ll never be the dad I want.’”

“I’d never known that imagination could help process the past.”

So that’s why I have a big imagination. I kid

These two are way too good at getting under each other’s skin