But the Girl Quotes

“My mother's gifts were like instruments no one would ever dare to teach her how to play. She did whatever she wanted with them and made life dance for her over and over again. She had a natural charisma that made her seem taller than the sun. Sometimes it felt like she had by the mystery of transubstantiation made something out of nothing and that something was herself and the nothing was what she had. She was never joyless or afraid. At least that's what she wanted me to believe and, for the most part, I believed her.”
― Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, But the Girl