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"And becasue denial, fabrication- storytelling- was her way of staying one step ahead of her life, how could any of us tell her she was wrong?"
"It was beauty, I learned, that we risked ourselves for."
"I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can't, at last, teach me how to touch my dead."

"A new immigrant, within two years, will come to know that the salon is, in the end, a place where dreams become the calcified knowledge of what it means to be awake in American bones- with or without citizenship- aching, toxic, and underpaid."
this section has legimately some of the best quotes ive ever seen in a book

"Eventually you put down your slice of pineapple cake- untouched, the glasses clinking as the corpses, fleshed from Lan's mouth, piled up around us."
"I want to say that his daughter who is not his daughter was a half-white child in Go Cong, which meant the children called her ghost-girl, called Lan a traitor and a whore for sleeping with the enemy."
this book has so many good quotes,