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All I need is you.
She talked enough for both of them, and he was a good listener.
don’t care what these hands do as long as they’re yours.”
When you felt this way about someone, you didn’t keep secrets from them.
It was her smile.
they wanted it small. Stella doesn’t like crowds.”
Whatever Michael felt for her, she reciprocated fully. Girl loves boy loves girl.
the sun dove into the horizon, and the sky blazed over the ocean. It was a magical moment.
Debussy’s “Clair de Lune.”
I’m happy. With you. You make me happy.”
Stone hearts didn’t love.
Just Esme. And she had nowhere to go. There was a great big world all around, and none of it was hers.
Where did you go when you had nowhere?
she was good enough for herself. She didn’t need a man for anything.
Love would have to be enough. It was truly all she had.
was worried about you.”
Everyone deserved to love and be loved back. Everyone. Even her.
There had to be something she could do to earn her place here, some way to prove herself. She had to keep looking.
didn’t remember driving here, walking into the building, or going up the elevator. He’d done it all on autopilot.
dressed in an inside-out sweater (to keep the seams off his skin)
12:34 A.M., 3:45 A.M., 6:07 A.M., 11:22 A.M.,
Stone hearts didn’t break. They were too hard.
now he was symmetrical.
Unlike Khai. He was meant to be a lone sock. Lone socks had a place in this world, too. Not everyone had two feet.
What happened when you gave someone an opportunity?
Generosity of this magnitude didn’t make sense to her.
a new dream formed in her heart,
She had this dream now, and she’d never wanted anything so much.
he wondered what made a person a person. Was it something mystical like a soul? Something scientific like neural connections in the brain? Or something simpler, like the ability to make someone miss you ten years after you’d died?
“Sometimes the things people do and believe don’t make sense. I feel most alive when I might die. And
How did you change your life when you were trapped like this? Her history didn’t define her. Her origins didn’t define her.
The way he thinks and also the way he processes emotions are not like most people.”
she accepted him the way he was.
Bad things happened when he cared about people.
Exuberance, fear, excitement, sorrow. Most alive when you might die.
one person could make a world of difference.
she had that fire. She felt it. That was her worth. That was her value. She would fight for her loved ones. And she would fight for herself. Because she mattered.
Her origins didn’t define her, but they were a part of her.
My heart works in a different way, but it’s yours. You’re my one.”
Esme was a force to be reckoned with.
She grinned back. “Em yêu anh.” Without hesitation, he replied, “Anh yêu em.”
Em yêu anh yêu em. Girl loves boy loves girl. THE END
four successful restaurants in Minnesota.
my hero, my idol, and my role model.
She made me believe I could do anything if I tr...
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Not as a person. I didn’t have a deep understanding of what drove her,
Esme was brave, and she was fighting for a new life for herself and her loved ones in every way
All of her “drawbacks” were not due to her character. They were things beyond her control: her origin, her education level, her lack of wealth, the language she spoke—things
I realized I’d been subconsciously trying to make my work socially acceptable,
I needed to tell her story. For me. And for my mom.
