Jean Kwok Quotes

#1. Sneaked another glance at myself in the mirror. For the first time, I did not see a dishwasher.

Jean Kwok

#2. You may need to change your dreams.

Jean Kwok

#3. We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

Jean Kwok

#4. It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.

Mary Elizabeth Clark

#5. Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

Jean Kwok

#6. One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.

Fredrik Backman

#7. I will give you what you asked for." "I beg your pardon, I haven't asked for anything!" "Yes, you have! Twice now. My pardon. I give it you. In fact I will go so far as to send you on this adventure. Very amusing for me, very good for you - and profitable too, very likely, if you ever get over it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

Alden Ehrenreich

#9. I never want to love someone like that,not even him,so much that there would be no room left for myself,so much that I wouldn't be able to survive if he left me.

Jean Kwok

#10. I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?

Jean Kwok

#11. What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

Jean Kwok

#12. It felt as if the rest of the world knew something I didn't ...

Jean Kwok

#13. Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

Jean Kwok

#14. No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

Jean Kwok

#15. A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.

Billy Bob Thornton

#16. The core power of tai chi begins with awareness. Our stance is the posture of infinity: not tense but relaxed and upright, expectant. From this nothingness, all things begin.

Jean Kwok

#17. When I'm with you, I could drink water and be full.

Jean Kwok

#18. Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.

Nicole Krauss

#19. It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

Jean Kwok

#20. I began to see beauty as something that could be unleashed from within a person rather than a set of physical features like a perfect nose or big eyes.

Jean Kwok

#21. Brains are beautiful.

Jean Kwok

#22. I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Isak Dinesen

#23. Once, Nina had pretended to be Dominic teaching a dance session. I don't like your feet, your legs, your shoulders and your head. Just cut them all off!

Jean Kwok

#24. I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.

Jean Kwok