Esther

“Mama lingers to offer me her usual parting words of advice: Don’t sleep later than eleven or you die, don’t drink cold water or you die, watch out for child molesters on your way to school, eat ginger, lot of ginger, remember check air quality index every day...”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“Beyond that, memories have a way of changing on us. Souring or sweetening over time—like a brew we drink, then recreate later by taste, only getting the ingredients mostly right. You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“I’m not sad because I don’t love life enough, but because I love life too much. I always want more of it.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“I am almost lost without the need to lie.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few