Lucy Tan > Quotes

“The sun felt so loud, it stood in for conversation.”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised

“The heart was the most senseless organ there was—yet the most essential. No wonder people were doomed to be fools from the beginning.”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised

“Why do our minds fixate on the kinds of love we're not getting instead of the kinds of love we are?”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised

“She had so many opinions it was sometimes hard for her to keep them from becoming bodily reactions.”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised

“They wanted to “fall” in love—that was the American way—whereas the idea of falling anywhere, with anyone, had never once appealed to Lina.”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised

“To take in a child and give love so willingly like that, with no obligation - isn't that the most generous love of all? I didn't see it at the time. All I saw was the love that was withheld from me. Love I thought I was entitled to.”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised

“Cooking was an act of love and creation, and what better way to show Qiang how much they loved him than by presenting him with a feast?”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised