zoe olesker’s Reviews > Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng > Status Update

“she has always been a white rabbit ready to dart away.”

i am FREAKED.

“even when she is no one at all, just an echo of a dead person, she’s still chinese and no one will let her forget it.”

“she has failed once more at becoming someone”

“all it takes is a single moment to cross into the broken reality, the bad one.”

“cora just wants to understand how people find their dreams”

“the worst part is i know i’m losing. you get a sense for it in games when things aren’t going your way, when it’s better to just start over. but this is my only life and i’m losing already, and i don’t know how to make it stop.”

“of course nothing adds up, your mind is a labyrinth and you are lost inside.”

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“if someone else says it, it becomes real.”

“maybe she wants someone to teach her how to be human the correct way, the way she never learned.”

“a secret part of cora likes the end of the world because it makes her strangeness feel quieter”