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1 " Always myself—noodle slurper, face toucher, and all. "
― Gloria Chao , American Panda
2 " Sometimes I'm ashamed of how I've clung to them with bloody, torn-apart hands, trying to make it work even after they show me again and again it's not worth it. But I'm somehow also ashamed of choosing myself now. "
― Gloria Chao , Rent a Boyfriend
3 " I couldn't go through life as a shadow. "
4 " And right now I had no idea where I ended and my parents began. "
5 " If I lied, the real me would disappear. "
6 " And for the record, I'm also not related to every other Chu out there.”She sipped her water as we laughed. I thought of how in high school, everyone had assumed Ping Lu was my cousin, but no one assumed Ally Jones and Mike Jones were related. "
7 " Sometimes a piece of you must die for the rest of you to survive, and for me, I lost so much I became a different person. "
― Gloria Chao , Our Wayward Fate
8 " There was no right or wrong here. No morality. Just two roads, leading in different directions but both ending in heartbreak. Life was, as I was finding out, Choose Your Own Adventure with most of the fun stripped away. "
9 " Once I stopped trying so damn hard to be someone else, I started to enjoy life. Being alone was hard, but better than feeling shitty about myself all the time "
10 " That was why I used to keep everyone out: because once someone gained enough of a hold on you, they had the ability to crush you so small you disappeared. But even knowing that, I didn’t regret letting Chase in. "
11 " It was about being able to see yourself mirrored in another, with the return reflection making you clearer, more focused. "
12 " I wanted to reach into my chest and hand her my heart, so she could finally understand what made me tic. Maybe then she would also see how each of her words perpetuated the crack she and my father had put there months ago. "
13 " Sometimes a piece of you must die for the rest of you to survive, and for me, I lost so much I became a different person "
14 " Oh God, sorry!" His thumb tasted like soap. Not the most appetizing, but there was nothing hotter than a man who washed his hands regularly. "
15 " I like you, Darren, Lord Pecan, Sir Almond, and I want to date you, and just you. Like normal MIT students. I want to awkwardly hold your hand, share bowls of liquid nitrogen ice cream, and drop metallic sodium in the Charles. "
16 " El sueño es el hermano engañoso del alcohol. "
17 " Ya sabes, lo que dijiste. Vamos a pasarnos de la raya cientos de kilómetros, hasta olvidarnos siquiera de que existe. "
