Jade Chang Quotes

#1. I'm not going to be part of this," said Leo. He opened his hand and dropped the flowers. Fragrant, obedient, they beheaded themselves on Saina's salvaged-wood floors.

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#2. In the end, all we had were the people to whom we were beholden.

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#3. No one thinks to make the goddess a cup of tea; they just ply her with useless perfumed oils and impotent carved fetishes.

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#4. But she couldn't formulate the sentence in Chinese. Her knowledge of the language only extended to the daily necessities and small affections.

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#5. She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd.

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#6. Our first big mistake - we believed that money was rational. Andrew

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#7. How can we be a polis when 95 percent of us would rather watch aging housewives bicker on TV than express a well-formed opinion of our own?

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#8. So, the thing is, my dad, the immigrant, is really, really disappointed that I have an allergy. A peanut allergy. Because immigrants do not believe in allergies. I swear to God, ask any brown person with an accent that you see and they'll tell you that allergies are some New World shit.

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#9. Love saves you, as long as there's a you to be saved.

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#10. Inside the house, where money could reliably fix most problems, things were nearly perfect, but outside, butch nature trampled all over wimpy nurture.

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#11. ...this was what she had been taught: To choose marriage and babies over a glamorous career would be an unthinkable failure. Love was supposed to be the by-product of a life well lived not the goal. And this is what she realized: Everything she had been taught was wrong.

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#12. Our second big mistake - we thought that risk could be quantified. Our third big mistake - Alan Greenspan. The

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#13. Communists had it all wrong. It wasn't the rich who were imprisoned by their possessions, it was the poor.

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#14. He did it for that bubbling, champagne-in-the-veins high, that desire to be part of someone else's new life, someone else's realised potential.
Vampires must feel like that.

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#15. And what is any artist, really, but someone who doesn't mind being an asshole?

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#16. The people of the world could be divided into two groups: those who used all of their chances, and those who stood still through opportunity after opportunity, waiting for a moment that would never be perfect.

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#17. As many Chinas as there were, there were that many Charleses as well. Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would have been to him from the inside and the place it must be to him from the outside.

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#18. Women, she realized, were scared to be assholes. And what is any artist, really, but someone who doesn't mind being an asshole? That was when she birthed her plan: Be an Asshole.

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#19. How many times did people have to prove that anything could be art before we could finally admit that very little was actually art? Theoretically,

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