Janice Lee Quotes

#1. And in the end, I think, we're all just trying to survive, aren't we?

Janice Y.K. Lee

#2. I can't imagine Japanese food without dashi, a broth made with kelp and dried bonito flakes. It has the aroma of the sea, tinged with a subtle smokiness, and adds a very important, distinct flavor.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#3. [Hilary] ... after you left, I didn't understand what had happened. David, I don't hate you and I don't blame you. I don't think you were happy, and I wasn't that happy either. We were just coasting, seeing what would happen, and then you pulled the plug. Right?

Janice Y.K. Lee

#4. Draw a monster. Why is it a monster?

Janice Lee

#5. The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

Tom Coburn

#6. Was there anything more intimate than being truly seen?

Janice Y.K. Lee

#7. That's the beginning of how it all changes. We become survivors or not.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#8. A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#9. So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow?
If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.

James Canon

#10. The feeling she has is most unexpected. The oddest thing. She feels no distress or worry. Instead, she senses a dim, faint feeling that rises from some unknown place in her heart, rising slowly and blossoming into something that she might call relief.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#11. That's the shock, and the surprise, to a lot of repatriates: No one back home cares. There's an initial, shallow interest in what life is like abroad, but most Americans aren't actually interested, at all.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#12. It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

Louisa May Alcott

#13. I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.

Alastair Reynolds

#14. There are so many things to know and learn. She reads ... and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#15. There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

Alvin Lee

#16. What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity- all facets of a Korea and a Korean America made new by this exciting writer's entrancing vision.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#17. Men strolled through life with a wallet in their pants, and women were saddled with children, the map, the bag, the half-empty water bottles. Resentment

Janice Y.K. Lee

#18. Wasn't love always some form of narcissism anyway?

Janice Y.K. Lee