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Yo sí (creo que) entiendo a qué te refieres, Lily.

"The problem with linguistic play is that you're only allowed to do it when you already know all the rules," she said. "If you are fluent and you break a language, then everyone thinks you're very clever. So poets do whatever they want. But if you aren't fluent and you break the language, then everyone just thinks you don't know how to speak."

Hay algunos comentarios de la protagonista que joe se nota tanto que es alguien adolescente que se cree que sabe mucho del mundo pero en realidad no, roza hasta lo cómico a veces. "Bad guys", "good guys", "this is good", "this is bad" y esta mentalidad tan simplista de blanco-negro, o ella tratando de autoconvencerse de que está haciendo bien, de que ella no es mala (es inexperta y naïve, pero no per se malvada).

I wanted become Chinese here, on my own terms. The anonymity was the point—but that meant this place had nothing to do with me, that no cradle of belonging justified my missteps.
[...] Did the locals tolerate us? Did they despise us? Did they think about us at all?

The only excuse I could come up with was that I had felt like I couldn't interfere. Like whatever happened in this city happened through a glass wall, and if we werent paying for it, we weren't allowed to interact with it. All we could do was look.
"Holy shit." Devin pulled out his phone. I turned to look. Across the square, an old man was carrying a boom box while walking beside his dog, who was riding a skateboard.

tan relatable

This was precisely how I felt about learning Chinese. I was always drowning in what I didn't know.

Could you be homesick for a place you had never been?