"Grief is the price we pay for love."
The author is a songwriter and singer of Japanese Breakfast. She even wrote a song called Nobody Sees Me Like You Do for her mother. After reading this book, you should definitely listen to it.
This was my first biographical book. I've never read any biography before. Everything in this book was so raw that it sometimes brought tears to my eyes. The loneliness, being an only Asian-American at school, the cultural differences between her mother and father, every emotion, every grief, every chapter, everything... I felt every one of them to my bones.
"Mommy is the only one who tells you the truth because mommy is the only one who truly loves you."
"Always save ten percent of yourself. No matter how much you thought you loved someone or thought they loved you, you'll never give all of yourself. Save ten percent always. So, there was something to fall back on."
"Save your tears when your mother dies."
"You're what you eat."