Quotes by Jean Kwok

About Jean Kwok:

Jean Kwok is a contemporary Chinese American writer and the author of the national bestseller novels Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown. Jean’s family immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong when Jean was only five years old. She spent most of her childhood working in a clothing factory located in Chinatown, close to Brooklyn, NY.
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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

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

Jean Kwok

You may need to change your dreams.

Jean Kwok

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

Jean Kwok

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

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

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameJean Kwok
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist