Jen Wang > Quotes

“When I first learned the truth, I thought Sebastian's life would be ruined. But seeing you, I realized everything would be fine. Because someone still loved him.”
― Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

“My whole life is other people deciding what's acceptable. When I put on a dress, I get to decide what's silly.”
― Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

“If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it […]. Is it worth trying to be something you’re not? Just because it’s right?”
― Jen Wang, Koko Be Good

“I'm a prince who likes dresses.”
― Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

“Your name is on the dress but the dress has none of you in it!”
― Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

“This job won't love you back, you know.”
― Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

“Don't work too hard. This job won't love you back, you know.”
― Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

“You're a secret, which means I'm a secret!”
― Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

“Frances, my girl. The client is not the one who wears the dress. The client is who pays.”
― Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

“But we can learn from the way we hurt the ones we love, and try to do better.”
― Jen Wang, Stargazing

“Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as projected to us by satellite... the greatness of the experience goes beyond your ethical and aesthetic judgment, cutting you free from the binding ego of yourself. With the diminishment of your ego, the less there is of you, the more you see the sublime.”
― Jen Wang

“Settle down and be Good forever. Find the hardest things to accept in me, and reconcile what I am with what I hope to be.”
― Jen Wang, Koko Be Good

“Some days I look at myself in the mirror and think, 'That's me, Prince Sebastian! I wear boy clothes and look like my father.' Other days it doesn't feel right at all. Those days I feel like I'm actually... a princess.”
― Jen Wang

“Tudo de bom que aconteceu comigo foi por causa da costura. Se eu parar, tenho medo de descobrir que não sou mais nada.”
― Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker