Jean Kwok Quotes

In love and life, we never know when we are telling ourselves stories. We are the ultimate unreliable narrators.

Brains are beautiful.

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.

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.

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

But I learned that if you do not speak, no one will ever hear you.

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.

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.

I began to see beauty as something that could be unleashed from within a person rather than a set of physical features like a perfect nose or big eyes.

The core power of tai chi begins with awareness. Our stance is the posture of infinity: not tense but relaxed and upright, expectant. From this nothingness, all things begin.

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?

When I'm with you, I could drink water and be full.

I was beginning to realize that I had kept myself so busy to avoid examining my life, and now that I had the chance, I did not like it at all.

You may need to change your dreams.

Now, many years later, I was note sure if we had truly loved each other or merely the versions of ourselves we had seen reflected in the other's eyes-as if we had acted out a play together, both of us audience and player alike.