Koala Reads

"Xu Zixi looked up. Under the lamp’s glow, the man’s face read only one thing: I won’t give up."

"She smoothed the hair at his brow with both hands and watched the stitched wound. They’d shaved a strip of hair for the sutures, exposing pale scalp; even after it healed there would probably be a faint scar left behind."

"Her heart ached."