“Books, words, were my most treasured escape. I lived inside stories, I breathed them. I felt like they made me more human, or a better human…”

—  Marjorie M. Liu

On reading in “Marjorie Liu: Making a Monstress” https://www.guernicamag.com/making-a-monstress/ in Guernica (2016 Feb 15)

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