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All she wanted was to decide her own future, independently. It wasn’t easy, but it was worth rebelling for.

Alec Ash, Wish Lanterns

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Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China by Alec Ash. 7.4/10

About 6 different people living in China and how they viewed things as they grew up in the post 80′s.

This is the first period in my life that I’m reading books about other cultures besides those in India or the middle east.

I also wanted to reread this book, because I wanted to see them grow up again while knowing what happens.

Lucifer’s optimism is really what I respect. He keeps trying.

I love all the translations to Mia’s name.

I love how this encapsulates such different lives and it makes me want to read a version for the youth in Korea. This makes me want to continue how I go about life in this current moment. It makes me think about time and how right now could be one of the longest moments of my life, because it only gets shorter from here. I’m already discontent with how short time has been since junior of high school. Every day is a blur, but I’m thankful because time really is all I have.

This makes me nostalgic for something I didn’t live through. Just like Reply 1988 and Architecture 101.

Memorable Quotes: “they face intense competition for success in an environment where there is more to gain from silence and everything to lose from speech.” “Collective history is of less concern than individual futures.“ “Dependence is confused with desirability.”