Lisa Lin > Quotes

“I had to Marie Kondo the book club. It did not spark joy.”
― Lisa Lin, The Year of Cecily

“She’d always been the Watson to his Sherlock, Bonnie to his Clyde, the soy sauce to his ginger.”
― Lisa Lin, The Year of Cecily

“God bless friends who saw through your bullshit”
― Lisa Lin, The Year of Cecily

“Fighting over who paid the check was a time-honored Asian tradition, and akin to two MMA fighters in a no-holds-barred death match. It could get loud, physical, and potentially violent. There was a whole list of stratagems one learned through osmosis to employ to ensure you got to the check first. Like pretending you had to use the restroom halfway through the meal, but instead you sneak over to the waitress and hand over your credit card.”
― Lisa Lin, The Year of Cecily

“It almost felt like she’d been looking at her relationship with her mother through a kaleidoscope and had settled in on one familiar pattern, and with one small tilt, she was getting a completely different image”
― Lisa Lin, The Year of Cecily