Green Tea and Black Death Quotes

“Kirill was in the kitchen trying to make party trays of the food that people had been dropping off by the truckload. Why does everyone try to feed you when they know food is the last thing you want? They should drop off bottles of alcohol and lots of mint candies because you need alcohol when you're sad and whether I'm drinking or not, my stomach just felt like it was on the verge of throwing up all the time and mint helped with that.”
― Amy Sumida, Green Tea and Black Death

“Grandma,” I patted her, “telling a young girl that God is going to take all the good Christians up to Heaven next month and leave all of us horrid sinners behind to suffer numerous tortures, is not reassuring right now. Let’s hold off on that conversation, okay?”
― Amy Sumida, Green Tea and Black Death

“think it's risk; the risk that they may not love you as much as you love them. It's fire; burning but purifying, making both of you better for having survived it. I believe it's about compromise; finding a middle ground where two people can be together and still be separate, be in love, but still love themselves. I know this is love because it's what I feel, what I want, and what I'd do to be with you. What I'm not going to do, is give up just because you ask it of me.”
― Amy Sumida, Green Tea and Black Death