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“I don’t feel the same black, suffocating loss I did when my father died. I don’t struggle to breathe. I don’t lie awake in the mornings debating whether it’s worth crawling out of bed. I don’t resent every stranger I encounter, wondering how they can keep moving around the world as if it hasn’t stopped turning.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“But I think you’ll see in this book a girl who does find herself, not by success in the music industry but by taking the opportunity to sensibly and truly lose her marbles. The thing being that after losing them, one finds them and plays the game better.”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“Someone else tweets a photo of me taken off my Instagram paired with a photo of Scarlett Johansson, captioned: Corporate wants you to find the differences between these two images LMAO.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“For some, the distance between deciding and doing is a wide gulf. I’m fortunate not to be one of those people.”
― Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last