Evan

“Everything I know is aftermath.”
― Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

“As I prepare to leave pages for Wei, I try to listen for his questions. I suspect that our lives have run in parallel, that the two halves of our story can never end without the other. At last, I think I hear him but he bears no questions and no answers. Instead, he tells me that because it is forever unfinished, we have sought each other in the faces of strangers, among the living and the dead, among the mothers and the fathers, and he tells me that his journey appears everywhere I look. Love, he tells me, like devotion, leaves everything unfinished.”
― Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

“I say impotent, for I observe that to such grievances as society cannot readily cure it usually forbids utterance, on pain of its scorn, this scorn being only a sort of tinselled cloak to its deformed weakness. People hate to be reminded of ills they are unable or unwilling to remedy. Such reminder, in forcing on them a sense of their own incapacity, or a more painful sense of an obligation to make some unpleasant effort, troubles their ease and shakes their self-complacency.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“Cats only do what they like.”
― Syou Ishida, We'll Prescribe You a Cat