Lily Chu > Quotes

“You are braver than you want to believe. You like to pretend you're not bold because it's an excuse to not stretch yourself.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“No one else can be you. No one else can tell your story like you. You are unique. So write the movie you want to see.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“Why is it so hard to say no to everyone except myself?”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“I admit it. I love lists. I crave them. I draw visceral pleasure from anything I can put a line through, a check beside, or delete as a declaration that I have Completed a Task and am therefore a worthy, functioning human.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“I’m Canadian. We’re raised on apologies and maple syrup.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“What do I do?”
He turns to me, stupefied.
“How should I know? I don’t wear women’s underclothes. Surely by this age you’ve mastered wearing them?”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“Celebrities are the glitter of humanity: pretty to look at, useless except at parties, and an utter pain to clean up after.”
― Lily Chu, The Comeback

“Am I expected to loaf around in clothes with non-stretchy waistbands like some sort of animal?”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“You need money,” Anjali prods. “How much fuck-you money do you have?”

Fuck-you money is the money you save for whenever you need to tell your boss or your partner where to go as you blow out the door.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“I’m in a car with Wei Fangli and Sam Yao.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“I want to be with you exactly as I am, even if that me is sometimes sad or miserable or in a bad mood."

"That's good, because I want the same thing.”
― Lily Chu, The Takedown

“Ever since I had to put Mom into the home, I've made a pleat here and crease there to origami my life to become small and manageable.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“know that face because—it suddenly clicks—this is Wei Fangli.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“A past therapist had once gently invited me to sit with the idea that I had internalised having less of a claim to call myself white or Chinese because I felt I never belonged to either group.”
― Lily Chu

“No one can be you. No one else can tell your story like you. You are unique. So write the movie you want to see.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“done”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“It's hard to cope when simultaneously drunk and hungover.”
― Lily Chu, The Comeback

“There are enough people in the world ready to put you down. Do you need to join them?”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“Then she flashes me a photo”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“Sam Yao, the Sexiest Man”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“attitude is like chewing on tinfoil. “Yes.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“People sometimes have trouble when your face doesn't match your culture. They come to me with ideas of how I should be, what I should eat and like and think. If my grandparents were from France, no one would expect me to go around wearing a beret or come to me for baguette recommendations. I was raised here. Apart from my appearance, there's nothing that connects me to China. It sounds like I hate being Chinese. I don't. I love being who I am. I only wish other people could accept me for me and not make up a person based on my appearance.”
― Lily Chu, The Comeback

“The trigger is irrelevant. Once the idea you can do something occurs to you, that’s all that matters. Who cares who twists the handle for Lawrence as long as he can walk through the door?”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“The unfunny thing about heartbreak is that it's not dramatic at all. It's simply there as a background ache that ebbs and flows.”
― Lily Chu, The Comeback

“Mom would kill me if she knew. But for once, I want to take a chance living my life in a lane that’s not the dead middle.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“I’m going to make changes now because my faith needs to be in me.”
― Lily Chu, The Takedown

“We once visited my grandfather in a shared room—he liked the company—and she came out and whispered to me that she’d rather be left in a forest to be eaten by animals than have to deal with a stranger’s noises all day.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

“Hearts are strange things. They never do what you wish. Never take the easy path.”
― Lily Chu, The Comeback

“Emotional hangovers are worse than the tequila ones, and I'm worried about what to say to her.”
― Lily Chu, The Takedown