“To be part of the Cabinet, I'd had to keep my true self apart. and there's only so much of yourself you can hide, Linh, before you start to fall apart.” — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was the self that was visible, the self that could be shown to other people.” — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“To be part of the Cabinet, I'd had to keep my true self apart. and there's only so much of yourself you can hide,… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was the self… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“Love was a verb with a certain amount of energy attached to it - a daily quota - and you had to choose on… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“I was crying out of frustration, frustration that I could not be left alone, that no girl at this school could possibly be allowed… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“I wish I could have told you how much talking and writing to you meant to me all year. How you were my bullshit… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“She had always thought the word 'pheromones' made it sound as though molecules were floating in the air, shaped like little fluted horns, ready… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
“I wasn't afraid of being alone, but I was afraid of what people would think about my solitary state. People, even well-intentioned people, were… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
