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My eyes widen, the organ in my chest thumping to a halt.Â


“Emigration was a peeling away of the skin. An undoing. You wake each morning and forget where you are, who you are, and when the world outside shows you your reflection, it's ugly and distorted; you've become a scorned, unwanted creature.”
― Infinite Country
― Infinite Country

“But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroyed in their union.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“We are defined by the places we hold in the web of othersâ€� lives.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“Another word I hate: minority. A way to imply we’re outnumbered (we’re not), and suggest we are less than.”
― Infinite Country
― Infinite Country

“But the memory lingered, the lesson I have never quite been able to shake: that I would always have something to prove and that nothing but blazing brilliance would be enough to prove it.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom

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