“And if anyone asks, you’re Chinese. The boy had nodded. ‘Chinese,’ he whispered. ‘I’m Chinese.’ ‘And I,’ said the girl, ‘am the Queen of Spain.’ ‘In your dreams,’ said the boy. ‘In my dreams,’ said the girl, ‘I’m the King.’”
―Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine
I Believe I Was Sitting There …
3“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
— Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
4 “Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour.” - Robert Frost
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“My father always struck me as the sort of man who, under the right circumstances, might have invented the microwave oven or the transistor radio.”
- David Sedaris
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