Kei Go

“There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“Every time she tried to branch out to new projects, they kept insisting that Asian was her brand, was what her audience expected. They never let her talk about anything other than being an immigrant, other than the fact that half her family died in Cambodia, that her dad killed himself on the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen. Racial trauma sells, right? They treated her like a museum”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“I believed that a life has no value if a person is not a useful member of society. I was convinced that humans are born in order to be of service to the world and to others.”
― Durian Sukegawa, Les délices de Tokyo

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein