Right thing Quote by Lisa Ko

“You could try to do all the right things and still feel wrong inside.”

— Lisa Ko

“In Ridgeborough, when Deming Guo was no longer a name that was said aloud, he used to picture the Other Deming and Other Mama,…

— Lisa Ko

“Daniel was malleable, everyone and no one, a collector of moods, a careful observer of the right thing to say. He watched other people’s…

— Lisa Ko

“If he could just talk to his mother in person, maybe he could figure out who he should be.”

— Lisa Ko

“The other instructors, even his mother, laughed at him for making work harder for himself and not teaching the workbook. But his students were…

— Lisa Ko

“The boat rocked in the waves, and as I saw the lights of Kowloon come through the fog, I held the railing, breathless. How…

— Lisa Ko

“He had never known how exhausting it was to be conspicuous.”

— Lisa Ko

“Always be prepared, she liked to say. Never rely on anyone else to give you things you could get yourself. She despised laziness, softness,…

— Lisa Ko

“Deming and his mother loved everything bagels, the sheer balls of it, the New York audacity that a bagel could proclaim to be everything,…

— Lisa Ko

“It was that kind of mindfuck: to be too visible and invisible at the same time, in the ways it mattered the most.”

— Lisa Ko

“My father used to say women yapped too much, that some women would be better off not talking at all. So I’d grown up…

— Lisa Ko

“It was a funny thing, forgiveness. You could spend years being angry with someone and then realize you no longer felt the same, that…

— Lisa Ko