Tiffany Tsao Quotes

• “She was always making silly mistakes when it came to preparing her son’s food—mistakes that anybody could have made, really. Like sprinkling chilli powder instead of cinnamon into his birthday cake batter every year, or accidentally spreading crushed cockroaches instead of tuna onto his tuna sandwiches.”

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• “Oddfittingness emanated from his every pore; it enveloped him like a cloud; it hung on him and exceeded him as if it were a baggy, oversized T-shirt that came all the way down to his scrawny little ankles.”

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• “For those who communicate through sound, the diversity of silence is impossible to fathom in any really meaningful way. We think of silence as absence when we should think of it as presence.”

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• “a salad of pineapple, turnip, water-apple, green mango, and cucumber doused in a spicy-sweet black sauce and christened with crushed peanuts.”

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• “worth a mention”

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• “James and Olivia found it possible to regain a semblance of that past, as distorted as it was. This semblance was to be found in the mutual pleasure they derived from ruining their son’s life.”

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• “ah beng had beat her to the idea, she was also relieved”

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