Sofia

“Hers was tougher than tough love. It was brutal, industrial-strength. A sinewy love that never gave way to an inch of weakness. It was a love that saw what was best for you ten steps ahead, and didn't care if it hurt like hell in the meantime. When I got hurt, she felt it so deeply, it was as though it were her own affliction. She was guilty only of caring too much. I realize this now, only in retrospect. No one in this would would ever love me as much as my mother, and she would never let me forget it.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I was an ordinary person with ordinary skills. But even so, this didn't mean I could only do ordinary things.”
― Singshong

“Tell me, you fool. If I continue to regress, will I ever get to meet you again?”
― Singshong, 전지적 독자 시점 Epilogue [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom Epilogue]

“Sometimes it was hard for Kathleen to remember that she was still her own person, not just shards of a mirror, reflecting back a thousand different personalities most fitting for the situation.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights