If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I would live your life so much better than you, if I had your face.”
“Rich people are fascinated by happiness,” she said. “It’s something they find maddening.”
“I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse. I will not come out of this with nothing.”
“Most people have no capacity for comprehending true darkness, and then they try to fix it anyway.”
“For all its millions of people, Korea is the size of a fishbowl and someone is always looking down on someone else. That's just the way it is in this country, and the reason why people ask a series of rapid-fire questions the minute they meet you. Which neighborhood do you live in? Where did you go to school? Where do you work? Do you know so-and-so? They pinpoint where you are on the national scale of status, then spit you out in a heartbeat.”
“In New York, you can talk to anyone about anything at any time and have a conversation so long you'll fall a little in love with that person, and then never see them again.”
“...you have to work and work and work for a salary that isn’t even enough to buy a house or pay for childcare, and you sit at a desk until your spine twists, and your boss is somehow incompetent and a workaholic at the same time and at the end of the day you have to drink to bear it all.”
“It's basic human nature, this need to look down on someone to feel better about yourself.”
“In America, one of my professors said once that the best art comes from an unbearable life—if you live through it, that is.”
“Why would you want to bring more children into this world so that they can suffer and be stressed their entire lives? And they’ll disappoint you and you will want to die. And you’ll be poor”
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Book Keywords:
standing-up-for-oneself, contemporary, revenge, relationship, fiction
