If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

God, life changes faster than you think.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Fate changes when you change your clothes.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.