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Girl in Translation QUOTES

Girl in Translation QUOTES

1 " 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 , Girl in Translation

2 " 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 , Girl in Translation

3 " You may need to change your dreams. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

4 " Nobody can change who you are, except for you. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

5 " 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 , Girl in Translation

6 " Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

7 " There's a Chinese saying that the fates are winds that blow through our lives from every angle, urging us along the paths of time. Those who are strong-willed may fight the storm and possibly choose their own road, while the weak must go where they are blown. I say I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

8 " 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 , Girl in Translation

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 , Girl in Translation

10 " Brains are beautiful. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

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

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

12 " 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 , Girl in Translation

13 " When I’m with you, I could drink water and be full. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

14 " Dice un proverbio chino que el destino es como un temporal de vientos que, provenientes de todos los rincones, azotan nuestras vidas y nos empujan por las sendas del tiempo; quienes posean fuerza de voluntad, lucharán contra la tormenta y podrán escoger su propio camino, mientras que los débiles acabarán allá adonde los lleve la tempestad. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

15 " I would have chosen statistical probabilities over luck any day. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

16 " I felt surrounded by the warmth of Annette’s friendship, by her confidence in me. I wondered if that had been her plan all along. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

17 " After work, we both caught our breath in front of that fan, sitting on the mattresses on the floor, our backs resting against the wall. Slowly, two yellowish human-shaped stains developed against the cracked paint: a small one for me and a larger one for Ma. Those stains are probably still there in that apartment, and I’ve dreamed about them, about our skin cells, our droplets of oil and sweat, sunk into that porous wall, bits of us that will never escape. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

18 " Avevo perso gran parte del mio interesse per i cosmetici. Non che avessi smesso di preoccuparmi del mio aspetto, anzi, ma non riuscivo a comprendere sino in fondo come si potesse risultare simpatica o bella. Non capivo come funzionavano queste cose. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

19 " Me sentía como un espantapájaros ante una tempestad. En cualquier momento, el viento podría derribarme y esparcir todas las piezas que formaban mi cuerpo. Me despertaría para darme cuenta de que no quedaba nada de mí, ni rastro de la persona que quería ser. "

― Jean Kwok , Girl in Translation

20 " I never want to love someone like that, not even Matt, 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 , Girl in Translation