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41 " I couldn't tell where the stories left off and the dreams began, her voice the voice of the heroines in my sleep. "
― Maxine Hong Kingston , The Woman Warrior
42 " Here they all were together, idle above their fields, nobody hoeing, godlike; nobody weeding, New Year's in summer. "
43 " To make my waking life American-normal, I turn on the lights before anything untoward makes an appearance. I push the deformed into my dreams, which are in Chinese, the language of impossible stories. Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear. "
44 " The whole world lived inside the gourd, the earth a green and blue pearl like the one the dragon plays with. "