Finished reading: Mister Yam by Yeng Tan 📚

What are humans if not a collection of short stories?

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What point is there in a story if it doesn’t ram our skulls into the wall we call living?

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we need stories to strike us like disasters. How else would we learn?"

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if we can’t find comfort in solitude, we’ll only know the anguish of loneliness.

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Whiplash in Italian is ‘when the witch hits’.

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How terrifying, to imagine the power of a single outcome.