Daisy’s Reviews > Think in Public: A Public Books Reader > Status Update

"I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. [...] It's hollow."

"segregating bodies shapes how minds work."

"one of Shelter's more provocative features is to align immigrant trauma stories with contemporary debt narratives. If trauma repeats the past, debt makes for a present haunted by the future. [...] to complicate the myth of Asian Americans as a 'model minority,' the appearance of affluence may depend on both psychic and financial forms of specious credit."

"Sentimentality to me simply means a false emotion, whatever it is. It's just sort of the sweet side of cynicism. But it's false, detached."