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“Our scars define us. They tell a story of courage and survival. They tell of who we are at our deepest being, of the challenges we've faced and overcome”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“People—especially men—could react poorly if they thought their intelligence was being criticized.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“How many women throughout history were blamed for the weaknesses of men? We made such convenient scapegoats. We were raised to be small, to be silent, to take whatever we were given and no more.”
― Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

“And this, I think, is my ultimate fatal flaw. Missing people who don’t miss me back. Clinging on to strands of string that shouldn’t mean half as much as they do. It takes so little for me to love someone, yet so long for me to move on.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“I guess my point is that I do believe in love. Really. I'm just not convinced that kind of love could ever happen to me.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“And I don't know how to make people stay; I never have.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“But certain joys, I'm discovering, are worth the potential pain.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“Sometimes I'm convinced I'll spend the rest of my life this way. Alone. Sometimes I think loneliness is my default setting.
- Eliza Lin”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“All I have are my dreams, and I'm beginning to realize that might not be enough”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“the older I am, the more I resent the implication that it's my responsibility to repay them for my existence”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“You're still a kid, you know.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun