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jennae's avatar

Oh Suyin, your writing is always so moving and I long to hold it in my hands so I can trace my fingers over the shapes and swells of your words. I can’t wait to have a book of yours in my palms one day.

This line really touched my soul “I looked and thought they were beautiful. They were my grandmother’s feet.” You captured that beautiful innocent gaze of a child that the world tries to snatch from us. Reading that made me feel like I was four years old again.

I also adore the section “Waiting for the rain.” The city crying and holding so many stories.

I wrote the other week about a bridge in a far off city I’ve never been to and probably never will. I don’t even know where it is. I imagined all the cars driving across it filled with stories I’ll never know.

This part of your writing captured that feeling I had even better and more poetically. I think I will always think of it now when it rains in the city. That the city is secretly crying all the pain that is held in the bodies it contains. Think of all the souls watching the water drip down windows and bounce off concrete, soaking a million pairs of feet. So stunning.

You have this incredible gift of evoking feeling within the reader, a gift I’m not entirely sure can be taught, only can exist when the author moves through the world feeling so deeply herself. Something that must be shared with the world. We need people like you that wake us up. That turn the blurring colours outside the window of a moving train into vibrant details moving in slow motion.

You are one of a kind my dear friend.

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Ana Von's avatar

Your writing is special Suyin. It’s so sophisticated, looking at details, like something we don’t take time for anymore. It feels analog, like turning my screen into a printed book, like the air slowly cooling down after a hot afternoon on a vacation somewhere with cypress trees. I have no idea why but that’s what it makes me feel🤍🤍🤍

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