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Yingxin is on page 30 of 464 of The Colony
“I always felt that the more you let people in, the greater the risk that they would ruin things.
That I would have to compromise my-self, wake up one day and realise I was living a life I didn't understand.”
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The Colony

Yingxin
Yingxin is on page 214 of 559 of Katabasis
“If you could constantly reinvent yourself, cut away the parts of you that ashamed or hurt you, then how could you ever come to really know someone else? Were people all just living paradoxes, keeping up an illusion just long enough to survive contact with others? Were people then all a series of lies in the end? And if that was true-then what difference did it make, what history you had, what love you'd shared?
Jan 12, 2026 06:24AM Add a comment
Katabasis

Yingxin
Yingxin is on page 188 of 559 of Katabasis
“Surely no one else lived like this burdened by the tiniest details they assumed had enormous consequences. Surely no one else was so anchored by anxiety. Other people could stumble and shake their heads and move on. How she envied their lightness.”
Jan 10, 2026 06:56AM Add a comment
Katabasis

Yingxin
Yingxin is finished with Real Americans
AREN'T WE LUCKY? Our DNA encodes for innumerable possible people, and yet it's you and I who are here-winners in a stupefying lottery. We came at the exact right moment, a blip in the hundred million centuries of the universe... And in this place, on this small blue rock, innumerable miracles: redwoods, computers, stingrays, pianos, you and me.
Dec 12, 2025 01:41AM Add a comment
Real Americans

Yingxin
Yingxin is 75% done with Butter
“Even without her lifting a finger, the world would keep on changing. The fact stunned her. Even without her trying, the people around her would form connections, intertwine in complex ways, and keep on growing, like the roots, leaves and stems of a plant.”
Nov 16, 2025 03:05AM Add a comment
Butter

Yingxin
Yingxin is 20% done with Butter
“You know how in recipes it'll say "sugar to taste" or "a good amount of salt" and so on? A friend of mine who edits cookery books for a living said that they've started having complaints about recipes that leave things to the individual's discretion... people are increasingly worried about making mistakes, and losing faith in their own judgement - they don't know what "a good amount" looks like for them.”
Nov 02, 2025 04:59PM Add a comment
Butter

Yingxin
Yingxin is 5% done with Real Americans
"I love Paris," I said, overemphatically, and felt my cheeks redden the moment the words left my mouth. I often wondered what percentage of things I said were truly original, and how much of what I said I'd heard said before and was only repeating.
Oct 12, 2025 04:54PM Add a comment
Real Americans

Yingxin
Yingxin is on page 139 of 324 of The Life Impossible
“You see, if you want to visit a new world, you don't need a spacecraft.
All you need to do is change your mind.”
Sep 07, 2025 08:06AM Add a comment
The Life Impossible

Yingxin
Yingxin is 10% done with The Life Impossible
It's a silly feeling but I will share it in case you have ever had it too. The feeling is that of the whole world happening. It squares - no, cubes - no, quartics - the now. What I mean is that travel tesseracts experience. It explodes it to the fourth dimension.
And it becomes dizzying to realise how many nows are happening all at once.
Sep 04, 2025 04:56PM Add a comment
The Life Impossible

Yingxin
Yingxin is on page 29 of 176 of Girl Meets Boy
“how you sit and read your way through a book then close the book and put it on the shelf, and maybe, life being so short, you'll die before you ever open that book again and its pages, the single pages, shut in the book on the shelf, will maybe never see light again”
Apr 21, 2025 01:37PM Add a comment
Girl Meets Boy

Yingxin
Yingxin is on page 122 of 246 of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Do you remember the happiest day of your life? What about the saddest? Do you ever wonder if sadness and happiness can be combined, to make a deep purple feeling, not good, not bad, but remarkable simply because you didn’t have to live on one side or the other?”
Apr 12, 2025 05:35AM Add a comment
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Yingxin
Yingxin is on page 241 of 310 of This Time Tomorrow
“Maybe that was the trick to life: to notice all the tiny moments in the day when everything else fell away and, for a split second, or maybe even a few seconds, you had no worries, only pleasure, only appreciation of what was right in front of you.”
Dec 12, 2024 07:19AM Add a comment
This Time Tomorrow

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