Susie Yang > Quotes

“That was the thing about getting too much happiness at once. Without time to adjust, the pain of not having it suddenly became unbearable.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“In the same way water trickles into even the tiniest cracks between boulders, her personality had formed into crooked shapes around the hard structure of her Chinese upbringing.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“All women, Ivy was beginning to understand, had a theme. The story they constantly told themselves. The innermost wound.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“One successful marriage can feed three generations.” Even a tragic love story, filtered through Meifeng’s eyes, boiled down to food and money.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“She always thought loyalty necessitated a certain blindness, like religious faith.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“Never dose a woman lie in a more cunning way than when she tells the truth to a man who doesn't believe her”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“Let this be your first lesson: give with one hand and take with the other. No one will be watching both.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“To show you were wounded from battle was to loose the war”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“You have to give a man something to fight for. That’s the secret to a lasting marriage.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“As I get older, I think that a shared history counts for a lot more in friendship than quantity of time spent with another person.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“Her parents’ mantra: The harder you work, the luckier you are.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“You used to ask how your father and I got married. That’s how. It was because I willed it. If I had been a stupider girl, your father never would have looked at me. But I saw my chance and made a story for myself—even if it was a false story. You have to give a man something to fight for. That’s the secret to a lasting marriage.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“People seemed to live so differently in the past, with real purpose and romance—true romance—born of suffering and sacrifice and courage, not this modern-day idea of romance made up of cheap words, alcohol, and trivial gestures….yet she also knew this was a stupid desire, a product of her peaceful, privileged life that romanticized suffering as a way to feel something deep and meaningful.”
― Susie Yang, In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology

“... Give with one hand and take with the other. No one will be watching both.” P7”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“Be humble and grateful for what you have. Don’t expect too much from life. If you go looking, you’ll always find people who are better than you.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“A Tom Sawyerish figure she imagined growing up on some widwestern farm, reading adventure books and butchering chickens, pulling the braids of milkmaids and leaving his hometown to travel the world; a more devout and sober Hemingway, in search of a deeper meaning, but never losing sight of where he came from.”
― Susie Yang, In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology

“To go fast, they say, you must go alone, but to go far, you must go with others.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“It was the oldest law in physics: the system itself can never change, it can only be rearranged.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“What of the soul-that fickle creature that was not so easily satisfied?”
― Susie Yang

“She would never be able to make this plain, undeviating man understand that the most fragile inner parts of a woman were compiled from a million subtle looks and careless statements from others; this was identity.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“After we’re married, we’ll move in together so you won’t have to worry about rent, at least,” Gideon said, neatly reading her mind in his tactful way.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“Potential, which she’d always known to be more exhilarating than even the most triumphant outcomes.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“To show you were wounded from battle was to lose the war”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“His eyes were the clear glittering gray of a frozen lake in which drops of dew hung in eternal suspended beauty; she felt she could see down the depths of a subterranean world, just by peering at those hard, gray eyes.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“And so Ivy grew like a wayward branch. Planted to the same root as her family but reaching for something beyond their grasp.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“Lives are like rivers. Eventually they go where they must, not where we want them to go.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“Men always think they take the initiative but it's women who make the first, often imperceptible move.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“A faint aura of charisma clung to the crevices where vitality had once resided.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy

“That was the Chinese way: corporal punishment followed by an excess of kindness.”
― Susie Yang, White Ivy