Isabelle zeigler

“A time when anything that is unique about
ourselves, anything that makes us depart ever so slightly from the
collective, prototypical vision of popular beauty becomes an agonizing
pockmark and self-denial the only remedy at hand.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“my mother’s face on the cover, her hand reaching toward the camera like she’s just let go of the hand of someone below.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“The lessons she imparted, the proof of her life lived on in me, in my every move and deed.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“He was an undesirable partner in a game with the highest of stakes and insurmountable odds. He was my father and I wanted him to soberly reassure me, not try to goad me into navigating this disheartening path alone. I could not even cry in his presence for fear he would take the moment over, pit his grief against mine in a competition of who loved her more, and who had more to lose. Moreover, it shook me to my core that he had said aloud what I considered to be unspeakable. The possibility that she couldn't make it, that there could even be an us without her.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart