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It’s June 30, 1997, the last day that Hong Kong will be a British Crown colony.
“Boxes of fireworks - she remembered them filling her childhood, at every occasion she could think of, gods, where had the Popisho fireworks gone? Mad swirls of silver-blue lightning and crimson stars. A whole sky of melting yellow moons that trickled into their hair and faces and turned into caramel.”
― Popisho
― Popisho
“Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task.”
― Popisho
― Popisho
“A forest takes care of itself, even as it builds the local climate it needs to survive.”
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“Her heart, kept for so long in a little glass case, begins to open up, crack by crack.”
― The Moon Represents My Heart
― The Moon Represents My Heart
“I only had the morning to get my work done. I had to be really efficient. I'd let the others take the easy questions in class and wait to answer the hardest ones. I'm Asian and a woman, which shouldn't matter but did anyway. It was clear sometimes that no matter how hard I worked, I didn't qualify to be a member of the in club.”
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
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