46 Quotes by Emily X.R. Pan

What makes a person—one who is so deeply loved—decide to do such a thing?

The more I think about it, the more that believing seems like the ultimate definition of family.

There's no point in wishing. We can't change anything about the past. We can only remember. We can only move forward.

We're not lost. We're just headed somewhere different.

I tried to swallow again, but my throat was dry enough to be splintered apart and used for kindling

Each piece was a snow globe of emotion and instinct. And the music-- that was another language entirely.

The mother-shaped hole became a cutout of the blackest black. Something I could only see around. If I tried to look directly at it, I saw emptiness.

Believing is a type of magic. It can make something true.

I think people see ghosts all the time, " says Feng. "And I think ghosts want to be seen. They want to be reassured that they truly exist. They back into this world after passing through the gates of death into another dimension, and suddenly they hear every thought, speak every language, understand things they didn't get when they were alive.