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“The morning was beautiful. She thought about taking off running ahead of him in an explosive bout of enthusiasm, then changed her mind. She wasn’t a zany manic pixie dream girl or anything. She’d probably pass out from the exertion.” (Mary HK Choi, Emergency Contact, pg. 265)
“You can be with the same person for a long time and have it be fine and meet someone else who instantly makes you see that it’s broken.” (Mary HK Choi, Emergency Contact, pg. 264)
“‘Salmon,’ my mother informed us, pronouncing it ‘Saul-mon,’ but the fisherman squatting by the tree understood her.” (Chia Chia Lin, The Unpassing, pg. 178)
“You and me, we won’t ever believe. It’s too late. You can’t suddenly believe after you don’t believe, because you’ll always know that you’re trying to believe, and that’s a completely different thing from just believing.” (Chia Chia Lin, The Unpassing, pg. 102)
“...I thought of all the notions that got trapped. The expressions that caught and went stale before we could get them out.” - The Unpassing, Chia Chia Lin (pg. 78)
“My parents spoke Taiwanese to each other and a mix of Taiwanese and Chinese to us. Pie-Pei, Natty, and I spoke English to each other and a mix of Chinese and English to our parents...”