Sarah Shun-lien Bynum quotes

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless...But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird.”
-- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

#School Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Bird Quotes
“This was the feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when they are most purely themselves. How could she not be depleted when she came home, having been exposed for hours, without protection, to all those thrumming radiant selves? Here they were, just old enough to have discovered their souls, but not yet dulled by the ordinary act of survival, not yet practiced in dissembling.”
-- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

#Home Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes
“A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.”
-- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

#Block Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Illumination Quotes
“Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then breaking that promise, beguiled by her cool, measured prose and by the surprises, tensions, and uncanny encounters simmering beneath its elegant surface.”
-- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

#Light Quotes #Heathers Quotes #Promise Quotes
“Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.”
-- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

#Wise Quotes #Lonely Quotes #War Quotes

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