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Girl in Translation

Jean Kwok

Top 10 Best Quotes

“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.”

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

“Nobody can change who you are, except for you.”

“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.”

“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?”

“You may need to change your dreams.”

“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”

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

“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.”

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

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Book Keywords:

humanity, change, love, debts, fate, relationships, life-lessons, dreams, heart-ache, heartbreak

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