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1 " She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle. "
― Vann Chow , Shanghai Nobody
2 " You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed. "
― Vann Chow , Shanghai Fools (Master Shanghai #2)
3 " I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot. "
― Vann Chow
4 " Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?” I questioned. “That would be almost like being brain dead... "
5 " I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river. "
6 " If this constant bitter disappointment was love, then I was perfectly fine not to have anything to do with it. "
7 " Having a date with someone other than your ex-wife after being a married man for more than twenty five years was an important occasion alright, but wearing a tie she bought with such strong emotional value attached to it was a form of cowardice, a subconscious reluctance to let go. "
― Vann Chow , The Pachinko Girl (Tokyo Faces #1)
8 " The only difference between having an affair here and having an affair there was that the American men would always ended up losing half of his estates over a woman he was infatuated just as much as the next tramp who would come his way, while Japanese men would only earn more respect from their subordinates through the possession of much younger women, as a sign of prowess and affluence, while their wives at home, as if there were rule books distributed nationally on the “proper” marriage etiquette for all young Japanese women to read before they enter into the matrimony, would turn a blind eye on their disloyalty quietly. "
9 " A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness. "
10 " Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination. "
11 " While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believethat if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well inmy life. "
12 " He advised that I could invest in stocks to make money. Given that I have a negative balance, that was where the conversation stopped. "
13 " Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe. "
14 " Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal. "
15 " And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again. "
16 " The face of self-pity was universally understood. "
17 " People who believed in God today will doubt him tomorrow and those who doubted him today will believe in him tomorrow because believing in someone else doesn't work. Believe in yourself. "
18 " It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects. "
19 " Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs. "
20 " Good Samaritan is only good when they think no one else will be the Good Samaritan. "
