Unwieldy Creatures Quotes

“I would never find out what she had to say, if anything. She postponed three or four times before I told her I couldn’t handle how difficult it seemed for her to make this one commitment to me, especially after having made so few in my life. At first, Ma tried to play the victim, but this was a mechanism I already knew from before. I wasn’t interested in carrying that story for her, which is exactly what I told her.”
― Addie Brook Tsai, Unwieldy Creatures

“It was starting to become clear to her the true price of monetary comfort. She felt a great sadness in her heart for the agency she would lose in this new life, the freedom to be herself gone. Sure, she had lived as a poor teenager. She and her mother worked themselves to the bone, but at least they could be pure of heart, sincere to themselves.”
― Addie Brook Tsai, Unwieldy Creatures

“Sometimes language crowds the mind so much, it's like standing without gravity. Sometimes the ground tells you who you are.”
― Addie Brook Tsai, Unwieldy Creatures