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“I couldn't exactly sit in the dripping yukata. The ink had stained all the embroidered cherry petals black.
"It's totally ruined," I said. "I hope Yuki won't be mad."
"It's not your fault. Well, it might be," he added with a grin.”
― Amanda Sun, Rain

“As much as I'd wanted to stay in Japan to be with him, the real reason was that I wanted control of my life. I was connected to the ink and I belonged here.”
― Amanda Sun, Rain

“There would always be a void. And my shoulders shook with relief that I didn’t have to fill it.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“There's a saying in Japan, and it has to do with cherry-blossom viewing: hana yori dango (Dumplings over flowers). It basically means that someone should value needs over wants, substance over appearance. As in, make sure you have food and shelter before you burn money on something extravagant. And, you know, choose genuine friends who will be there for you over pretty, shallow ones. Don't get carried away by beauty if it leaves you empty.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“It was like the vine of him had wrapped around her heart and bloomed into a hundred flowers overnight, when she wasn’t looking.”
― Amanda Sun, Rise

“Be angry, Katie Greene. Don’t forget how it was. Because there’ll always be a hole in your heart. You don’t have to fill it.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“Just be the strong woman you are, like me. If the guys can't handle us, it's their problem.”
― Amanda Sun, Rain

“That's all any of us have in the end, isn't it? there is death ahead of all of us. And so we live.”
― Amanda Sun, Rain

“Life is boring if you only do necessary things.”
― Amanda Sun, Rain

“Katie, I know it's your life. But please ... live it. Please live.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“Just like in our kendo matches, where we only felt briefly safe with our shinai thrust between us, keeping each other at arm's distance was the only way to trust each other. That way, no one would lunge, and either of us could retreat.
We lived in parallel worlds, somehow held together by the axis of each other.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“Power is an ugly thing. Run from it while you can.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“It doesn't matter what they do to me,' he said. 'It might even be better if they—stop me. But I need to know you're safe.'

'Oh, and so what you need is so important?' I spat, but really I was shaking at what he'd said. More like what he hadn't quite said. 'How can I know you're safe if I'm not here to save your pretty ass?”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“I hope he draws for you.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“He was fireworks and radiance, glare and tingling frostbite.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“Hana yori dango. Dumplings over flowers. It basically means that someone should value needs over wants, substance over appearance. As in, make sure you have food and shelter before you burn money on something extravagant. And, you know, choose genuine friends who will be there for you over pretty, shallow ones. Don't get carried away by beauty if it leaves you empty.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“My heart was glass--easy to see through, simple to break.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“They tell you you'll forget how it used to be. You'll get used to it, that it's better to move on. They don't realize you can't. You're not the same person anymore.”
― Amanda Sun, Ink

“How do you win when you're up against yourself?”
― Amanda Sun, Ink