Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book)

by Grace Lin

All the people you’ve met in your life have been brought to you by the red cords I tied. I must have forgotten to tie the end of one of the lines, which is why you are meeting me now. I won’t do that again.”

“You only lose what you cling to.”

there was a look of softness in Dragon’s eyes that Minli had never seen before. He was unused to kindness, she realized.

Fortune was not a house full of gold and jade, but something much more. Something she already had and did not need to change. “I didn’t ask the question,” Minli said again and smiled, “because I don’t need to know the answer.”