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Ann Liang Quote: “Maybe you can talk about how... I don’t know, how his laughter sounds. If it’s rougher in the mornings, or lower on the phone, or how he always tips his head back when he finds something funny. How – how you can only see his dimples when he smiles at something real. How you’re jealous of everyone who loves him, who knew him before you did.”

51. “Maybe you can talk about how... I don’t know, how his laughter sounds. If it’s rougher in the mornings, or lower on the phone, or how he always tips his head back when he finds something funny. How – how you can only see his dimples when he smiles at something real. How you’re jealous of everyone who loves him, who knew him before you did.”

Ann Liang Quote: “It makes me almost dizzy, thinking about the stark differences in realities, what will be and what could’ve been.”

52. “It makes me almost dizzy, thinking about the stark differences in realities, what will be and what could’ve been.”

Ann Liang Quote: “What I’m realizing is that if you’re quiet about the things that hurt you, people are only going to mistake your tolerance for permission.”

53. “What I’m realizing is that if you’re quiet about the things that hurt you, people are only going to mistake your tolerance for permission.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I finish underlining the date with my ruler so it’s perfectly straight. This is like my version of drugs.”

54. “I finish underlining the date with my ruler so it’s perfectly straight. This is like my version of drugs.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Because to me, wanting has always been indistinguishable from pain.”

55. “Because to me, wanting has always been indistinguishable from pain.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Rejection is the most humiliating form of defeat. It’s a losing battle before it even begun.”

56. “Rejection is the most humiliating form of defeat. It’s a losing battle before it even begun.”

Ann Liang Quote: “He only seems to relax when I scoot forward, bring my hand lower down to his arm, and tell him what I’ve wanted someone to say to me for as long as I can remember. What I’m still waiting for someone to say. “I’m not going anywhere. I promise.”

57. “He only seems to relax when I scoot forward, bring my hand lower down to his arm, and tell him what I’ve wanted someone to say to me for as long as I can remember. What I’m still waiting for someone to say. “I’m not going anywhere. I promise.”

Ann Liang Quote: “And how many people under Heaven were really fortunate enough to know happiness? Happiness was a side dish, like the sweet, sticky rice cakes Mother made during the festivals, or the glutinous balls stuffed with rich sesame paste. But revenge – that was the salt of life. Necessary.”

58. “And how many people under Heaven were really fortunate enough to know happiness? Happiness was a side dish, like the sweet, sticky rice cakes Mother made during the festivals, or the glutinous balls stuffed with rich sesame paste. But revenge – that was the salt of life. Necessary.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I really can’t stand it when people are angry at me. Like, I know it might be simple for others, but I can’t focus on anything else. I can’t just forget about it and go on with my own life. It’s like there’s something hard wedged inside my own chest. I’ll always feel guilty. I’ll always want to make amends.”

59. “I really can’t stand it when people are angry at me. Like, I know it might be simple for others, but I can’t focus on anything else. I can’t just forget about it and go on with my own life. It’s like there’s something hard wedged inside my own chest. I’ll always feel guilty. I’ll always want to make amends.”

Ann Liang Quote: “They say that when I was born, all the wild geese flew down from the sky, and the fish sank beneath the waves, having forgotten how to swim. Even the lotus flowers in out gardens quivered and turned their heads away, so ashamed they were of their own diminished allure in my presence.”

60. “They say that when I was born, all the wild geese flew down from the sky, and the fish sank beneath the waves, having forgotten how to swim. Even the lotus flowers in out gardens quivered and turned their heads away, so ashamed they were of their own diminished allure in my presence.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Because even though I’ve found Caz Song attractive on a physical level for a while now, my biggest turn-on has always been competence. And as it appears, Caz is unbelievably competent at his job.”

61. “Because even though I’ve found Caz Song attractive on a physical level for a while now, my biggest turn-on has always been competence. And as it appears, Caz is unbelievably competent at his job.”

Ann Liang Quote: “It’s cruel, really, how the world tends to present its most beautiful parts to you when you’re so profoundly sad.”

62. “It’s cruel, really, how the world tends to present its most beautiful parts to you when you’re so profoundly sad.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I will meet you again in every lifetime there is.”

63. “I will meet you again in every lifetime there is.”

Ann Liang Quote: “It’s a rare talent, the kind you can’t acquire through sheer determination and hard work” -Alice.”

64. “It’s a rare talent, the kind you can’t acquire through sheer determination and hard work” -Alice.”

Ann Liang Quote: “That’s the one thing I’ve worked for my entire life – to be someone who matters. That’s why my parents moved to this country. That’s my purpose. If I can’t do it, then what’s the point of anything? What’s the point of me? What possible value could I provide?”

65. “That’s the one thing I’ve worked for my entire life – to be someone who matters. That’s why my parents moved to this country. That’s my purpose. If I can’t do it, then what’s the point of anything? What’s the point of me? What possible value could I provide?”

Ann Liang Quote: “You’re still a kid, you know.”

66. “You’re still a kid, you know.”

Ann Liang Quote: “It’s my life, I think with amazement, and it’s beautiful, and I can paint it any color I want to.”

67. “It’s my life, I think with amazement, and it’s beautiful, and I can paint it any color I want to.”

Ann Liang Quote: “In the event that I do die in the middle of the night, I beg of you to not react by jumping up and down around my corpse,” Cyrus says flatly.”

68. “In the event that I do die in the middle of the night, I beg of you to not react by jumping up and down around my corpse,” Cyrus says flatly.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Most sincere things feel at least a little embarrassing. It’s part of our defense mechanisms. Our heart’s way of protecting us from potential hurt.”

69. “Most sincere things feel at least a little embarrassing. It’s part of our defense mechanisms. Our heart’s way of protecting us from potential hurt.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Please, Sadie. I’m begging.”

70. “Please, Sadie. I’m begging.”

Ann Liang Quote: “You’re so weird sometimes,” he says, and it somehow sounds more affectionate than I love you.”

71. “You’re so weird sometimes,” he says, and it somehow sounds more affectionate than I love you.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I can’t always say pretty things, and sometimes I tease you when really I just want you to look my way, and –.”

72. “I can’t always say pretty things, and sometimes I tease you when really I just want you to look my way, and –.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Caz cups my face with one steady, slender hand and traces a gentle line down my cheek, and my mind – my mind teeters toward oblivion. My breathing betrays me. His ink-black eyes lock on mine, and I am staring up at him, half in shock and maybe awe. He’s unreasonably beautiful and he’s so close it makes me ache and I want him closer still. I want him even though I shouldn’t. I want him to want me too.”

73. “Caz cups my face with one steady, slender hand and traces a gentle line down my cheek, and my mind – my mind teeters toward oblivion. My breathing betrays me. His ink-black eyes lock on mine, and I am staring up at him, half in shock and maybe awe. He’s unreasonably beautiful and he’s so close it makes me ache and I want him closer still. I want him even though I shouldn’t. I want him to want me too.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Step Three: Observe Him More Closely. The apparent logic behind this is that crushes are like mirages; they don’t hold well under intense scrutiny.”

74. “Step Three: Observe Him More Closely. The apparent logic behind this is that crushes are like mirages; they don’t hold well under intense scrutiny.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Fix this. It’s what I’ve always done, or tried to do. Fix the gap in my family, the holes in my life, patch everything up, smooth everything over.”

75. “Fix this. It’s what I’ve always done, or tried to do. Fix the gap in my family, the holes in my life, patch everything up, smooth everything over.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Because beneath my apprehension is the stronger, deeply ingrained need to be liked. To be accepted. To be forgiven. To be recognized as good. I’ll do anything to redeem myself.”

76. “Because beneath my apprehension is the stronger, deeply ingrained need to be liked. To be accepted. To be forgiven. To be recognized as good. I’ll do anything to redeem myself.”

Ann Liang Quote: “The men will fight for their thrones and their power and their legacies, but to them we are nothing more than crickets and ants, insignificant, expendable. We will continue to worry over the rice and soy sauce and oil, three meals a day, how to escape the cold in the winter and the heat in the high summer, the holes in the roof and the bedding and the taxes. What does it matter who wears the crown, if they will not change any of this for us?”

77. “The men will fight for their thrones and their power and their legacies, but to them we are nothing more than crickets and ants, insignificant, expendable. We will continue to worry over the rice and soy sauce and oil, three meals a day, how to escape the cold in the winter and the heat in the high summer, the holes in the roof and the bedding and the taxes. What does it matter who wears the crown, if they will not change any of this for us?”

Ann Liang Quote: “There’s something almost therapeutic about the simple, repetitive motions, working alone in the peace of my room at night, smoothing out the thin squares of paper again and again under my palms, my Spotify playlist on loop in the background, the playlist Zoe and I made together before I left, with all our favorite artists: Taylor Swift and Jay Chou and BTS.”

78. “There’s something almost therapeutic about the simple, repetitive motions, working alone in the peace of my room at night, smoothing out the thin squares of paper again and again under my palms, my Spotify playlist on loop in the background, the playlist Zoe and I made together before I left, with all our favorite artists: Taylor Swift and Jay Chou and BTS.”

Ann Liang Quote: “The only thing I ask is that we don’t ever become strangers, because I really – ” He breaks off. Clenches his jaw, fighting against some ineffable emotion. “I don’t think I could bear it, Leah. I don’t think my heart would be able to survive it.”

79. “The only thing I ask is that we don’t ever become strangers, because I really – ” He breaks off. Clenches his jaw, fighting against some ineffable emotion. “I don’t think I could bear it, Leah. I don’t think my heart would be able to survive it.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I have never known anybody as completely as I know you, and yet I still want to sit next to you, draw close to you, closer. I want you to tell me every story, want to listen to you speak until the night sinks in the sky and the stars fade out. I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost.”

80. “I have never known anybody as completely as I know you, and yet I still want to sit next to you, draw close to you, closer. I want you to tell me every story, want to listen to you speak until the night sinks in the sky and the stars fade out. I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost.”

Ann Liang Quote: “It’s so easy to be generous when you lack nothing. To be nice when you’re not in pain. It doesn’t matter if people are cheering for someone else, because they’re already cheering for me.”

81. “It’s so easy to be generous when you lack nothing. To be nice when you’re not in pain. It doesn’t matter if people are cheering for someone else, because they’re already cheering for me.”

Ann Liang Quote: “In reality we were just two mortals, bound by our respective roles in history, and whatever flickered between us felt so terribly fragile compared to the immovable weight of mountains, of kingdoms, of war.”

82. “In reality we were just two mortals, bound by our respective roles in history, and whatever flickered between us felt so terribly fragile compared to the immovable weight of mountains, of kingdoms, of war.”

Ann Liang Quote: “To them, violence doesn’t look like blood and broken bones. Violence looks like the disruption of power.”

83. “To them, violence doesn’t look like blood and broken bones. Violence looks like the disruption of power.”

Ann Liang Quote: “He’d flirt with a teaspoon if the situation called for.”

84. “He’d flirt with a teaspoon if the situation called for.”

Ann Liang Quote: “He would drop anything just to keep her smiling like that.”

85. “He would drop anything just to keep her smiling like that.”

Ann Liang Quote: “And then – good god – he outruns me. Or, well, outwalks, which is without a doubt much worse.”

86. “And then – good god – he outruns me. Or, well, outwalks, which is without a doubt much worse.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I note quietly that this is the twenty- fifth time he’s brought up the word Harvard in the past ten minutes. If Harvard were a ghost, he would have successfully summoned it back to life by now.”

87. “I note quietly that this is the twenty- fifth time he’s brought up the word Harvard in the past ten minutes. If Harvard were a ghost, he would have successfully summoned it back to life by now.”

Ann Liang Quote: “If I’m not first, I’m nothing.”

88. “If I’m not first, I’m nothing.”

Ann Liang Quote: “You’re sensitive, and maybe that means you feel pain and fear and humiliation more sharply, but you also feel joy more beautifully and completely than anyone I know.”

89. “You’re sensitive, and maybe that means you feel pain and fear and humiliation more sharply, but you also feel joy more beautifully and completely than anyone I know.”

Ann Liang Quote: “Later, though, I would wish I had stayed longer. Woken them up, held them close. Given them the chance to say a proper goodbye. But such things only occur to you in hindsight, framed by the before and after of everything you’ve endured; when it is still happening, all you care about is what lies ahead.”

90. “Later, though, I would wish I had stayed longer. Woken them up, held them close. Given them the chance to say a proper goodbye. But such things only occur to you in hindsight, framed by the before and after of everything you’ve endured; when it is still happening, all you care about is what lies ahead.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost.”

91. “I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost.”

Ann Liang Quote: “My pride. God, my sanity. It would all be over. You would annihilate me.”

92. “My pride. God, my sanity. It would all be over. You would annihilate me.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I’ve had to recount my entire life story to strangers enough times to know that sometimes it’s easier to just let them assume what they want.”

93. “I’ve had to recount my entire life story to strangers enough times to know that sometimes it’s easier to just let them assume what they want.”

Ann Liang Quote: “His real smiles are so rare that each one feels like a miracle, like you’ve won something.”

94. “His real smiles are so rare that each one feels like a miracle, like you’ve won something.”

Ann Liang Quote: “But then he calls my name once, soft, and I lift my head in surprise. He looks so obviously, genuinely moved, all his gratitude just lying wide open in his gaze, that I can’t stand it. This intimacy. The way it makes my chest heat.”

95. “But then he calls my name once, soft, and I lift my head in surprise. He looks so obviously, genuinely moved, all his gratitude just lying wide open in his gaze, that I can’t stand it. This intimacy. The way it makes my chest heat.”

Ann Liang Quote: “The world becomes beautiful, as long as there’s you.”

96. “The world becomes beautiful, as long as there’s you.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I really enjoy the implication that the horse poses an obstacle to sink ownership, and that the mother can only have ten sinks, eleven would just be too many.”

97. “I really enjoy the implication that the horse poses an obstacle to sink ownership, and that the mother can only have ten sinks, eleven would just be too many.”

Ann Liang Quote: “And Sadie is the light of my life,” Julius says, his lip curling, even though there’s an odd note to his tone. Something that could be confused for sincerity. “The sun in my sky, the source of all my joy. She’s the reason I wake up every morning excited to go to my classes. Not a day goes by where I’m not grateful that she exists, that she’s there, that I get to talk to her and pass her in the halls and listen to her laugh.”

98. “And Sadie is the light of my life,” Julius says, his lip curling, even though there’s an odd note to his tone. Something that could be confused for sincerity. “The sun in my sky, the source of all my joy. She’s the reason I wake up every morning excited to go to my classes. Not a day goes by where I’m not grateful that she exists, that she’s there, that I get to talk to her and pass her in the halls and listen to her laugh.”

Ann Liang Quote: “I’ve always had this theory that if I wanted something badly enough, the universe will make sure to keep it just out of my reach – either out of boredom or cruelty, like an invisible hand dangling stars on a string.”

99. “I’ve always had this theory that if I wanted something badly enough, the universe will make sure to keep it just out of my reach – either out of boredom or cruelty, like an invisible hand dangling stars on a string.”

Ann Liang Quote: “The one who wanted to be an artist now has their sights set on med school.”

100. “The one who wanted to be an artist now has their sights set on med school.”

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