Mary H.K. Choi

Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna.

— Mary H.K. Choi

Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.

— Mary H.K. Choi

Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.

— Mary H.K. Choi

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

— Mary H.K. Choi

If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved.

— Mary H.K. Choi

There's a really generous readership with YA.

— Mary H.K. Choi

'Sorry' is unlike anything Bieber has made in the past. It has been classified as 'tropical house' and 'dancehall,' but everyone seems…

— Mary H.K. Choi

If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of…

— Mary H.K. Choi

You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.

— Mary H.K. Choi

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You…

— Mary H.K. Choi

The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.

— Mary H.K. Choi

Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost…

— Mary H.K. Choi

The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them,…

— Mary H.K. Choi

Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.

— Mary H.K. Choi

I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that…

— Mary H.K. Choi

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has…

— Mary H.K. Choi

For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help…

— Mary H.K. Choi

In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards…

— Mary H.K. Choi

I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It's…

— Mary H.K. Choi

From the first time I harangued my mother into buying me a pair of platform sandals at the irascible and persistent age…

— Mary H.K. Choi

People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never…

— Mary H.K. Choi

Teens are strange and magical.

— Mary H.K. Choi

Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.

— Mary H.K. Choi

I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot…

— Mary H.K. Choi

I would never give up 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' and 'Game of Thrones.' I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious…

— Mary H.K. Choi