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Jean Kwok

(1967) Novelist United States

14 quotes in 49 categories

Jean Kwok is a novelist from the United States, best known for Leftover Woman.

Quick Facts About Jean Kwok

Born: November 30, 1967
Nationality: United States
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Leftover Woman

About Jean Kwok

Jean Kwok is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling Chinese American author of the novels Girl in Translation, Mambo in Chinatown, and Searching for Sylvie Lee, which was chosen as The Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jean Kwok

“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…

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Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

Change

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“No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are.”

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I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that…

Able

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No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it?…

Debt

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

Destiny

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You may need to change your dreams.

Change

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“Brains are beautiful.”

Beauty

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“We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more…

Life lessons

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

Decision

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

Drink

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What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more…

Every day

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“I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like…

Heart ache

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“I would have chosen statistical probabilities over luck any day.”

Luck

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