31 Quotes by Emiko Jean

Our bodies are not ornaments, they are instruments.

Kanji is an expression of the soul.

There is no happily ever after. Fairy tales are bull. The end.

If you train on all weapons, you master none.

I don’t have an American half and a Japanese half. I am a whole person. Nobody gets to tell me if I am Japanese enough or too American.

You mustn’t believe that. To believe something gives it weight and meaning. It taunts the gods and goddesses to turn it true.” “You are too optimistic.

But if I had know I had a daughter, I would have found a solution.” He studies me, waiting until my eyes raise to meet his. “I would have swum across the oceans. I would have scaled mountains. I would have crossed deserts. I would have found a way.

A weapon tempts violence, courts bloodshed. Once you’ve beckoned death, you cannot unbeckon it.

Grief is a powerful thing, and sometimes, if it’s ignored, we can become lost in it.