“A relationship means exhaustion. Entrapment. I haven’t the energy for the eventuality of it. Love is no big truth.” LoveRelationship Book:Ministry of Moral Panic Source: Ministry of Moral Panic
“The truth was probably that my mother had been so defined by the existence of my father that when he died, she couldn’t see anything else before her. He’d closed his fist around her, she’d let him, and then when he died there was so much white space of possibility around her, she couldn’t breathe.” LoveDeathRelationship Book:Ministry of Moral Panic Source: Ministry of Moral Panic
“Liu Tsong, her father laughed, you have your ideas, but they don't make any sense. They make sense to me, she answered. But, my girl, he said gently enough, you are not the world.” DreamsChildhoodParenting Book:Delayed Rays of a Star Source: Delayed Rays of a Star