“No matter how tired I was, I always felt more awake when I walked.” — Lisa Ko Awake Copy Share Image
“You could try to do all the right things and still feel wrong inside.” — Lisa Ko Feel Copy Share Image
“I wanted to remember this moment even as it was happening, to imagine it as already gone.” — Lisa Ko Remember Copy Share Image
“The sky was so clear and blue, so striking in its stillness, that I wanted to cry.” — Lisa Ko Stillness Copy Share Image
“Daniel was malleable, everyone and no one, a collector of moods, a careful observer of the right thing to say.” — Lisa Ko Daniel Copy Share Image
“It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the… — Lisa Ko Invisible Copy Share Image
“My new life was unstable and unsure, but each new day was shot through with new possibility.” — Lisa Ko Life Copy Share Image
“Deming and his mother loved everything bagels, the sheer balls of it, the New York audacity that a bagel could proclaim to… — Lisa Ko Bagels Copy Share Image
“My father used to say women yapped too much, that some women would be better off not talking at all. So I’d… — Lisa Ko Parenting Copy Share Image
“Then the shoreline would grown dimmer and the blue would shoot in all directions, filling the frame around me, the sky so… — Lisa Ko Happiness Copy Share Image
“You could play it one way and play it another, the same note sounding different depending on how you decided to hear… — Lisa Ko Things Feel Copy Share Image
“Because if he knew, then it had been real, not a nightmare I could just write off as my imagination. Like how… — Lisa Ko Reminded Copy Share Image
“He basked in her barbed teasing, recalled her toughest, more resilient love. How different it was from Kay's exposed emotions. His mother… — Lisa Ko Love Copy Share Image
“It was a funny thing, forgiveness. You could spend years being angry with someone and then realize you no longer felt the… — Lisa Ko Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“He loved cursing in Chinese, the breadth of options not available in English. He had trouble remembering the words for map and… — Lisa Ko Computers Copy Share Image
“Two weeks passed by. An Incredible American returned to Minjiang and had a party. He hadn't been born an Incredible American but… — Lisa Ko Los angeles Copy Share Image
“Daniel was malleable, everyone and no one, a collector of moods, a careful observer of the right thing to say. He watched… — Lisa Ko Daniel Copy Share Image
“The other instructors, even his mother, laughed at him for making work harder for himself and not teaching the workbook. But his… — Lisa Ko Parenting Copy Share Image
“Always be prepared, she liked to say. Never rely on anyone else to give you things you could get yourself. She despised… — Lisa Ko Around the corner Copy Share Image
“Music was a language of its own, and soon it would become his third language, a half-diminished seventh to a major seventh… — Lisa Ko American english Copy Share Image
“The boat rocked in the waves, and as I saw the lights of Kowloon come through the fog, I held the railing,… — Lisa Ko Lost Copy Share Image
“In the city, he had been just another kid. He had never known how exhausting it was to be conspicuous.” — Lisa Ko Exhausting Copy Share Image
“If he could just talk to his mother in person, maybe he could figure out who he should be.” — Lisa Ko Maybe Copy Share Image
“The disc of a record was hardier yet more delicate than plasticky CDs. A record was to be treasured, its circle scratches… — Lisa Ko Delicate Copy Share Image
“In Ridgeborough, when Deming Guo was no longer a name that was said aloud, he used to picture the Other Deming and… — Lisa Ko Queens Copy Share Image
“You shut off the light. For a moment we lay together, on our separate beds, as your words pulled a warm blanket… — Lisa Ko Light Copy Share Image
“The book says in two months we can be speaking at a third grade level.' 'Third grade? That's for kids. Baby level.'… — Lisa Ko Books Copy Share Image
“So I'd grown up eating my words, and it wasn't until later that that I realized how many had gotten backed up… — Lisa Ko Younger self Copy Share Image
“Never had there been a time when sound, color, and feeling hadn’t been intertwined, when a dirty, rolling bass line hadn’t induced… — Lisa Ko Colors Copy Share Image
