Jen Sookfong Lee > Quotes

“Shew Lin talks loudly, moves with hurricane-like energy. Everything she does is meant to be noticed and the center of attention.”
― Jen Sookfong Lee, The End of East

“One week later, he lies in the hospital room, his breath moving deliberately in and out of his body. He feels as if he has been in this small room forever, that his home life is a blurry dream he cannot really remember. He moves his feet in circles, first the left, then the right. Their swelling has not stopped., and he knows that soon he will be unable to move them at all.”
― Jen Sookfong Lee, The End of East

“I pierced the upper cartilage on my right ear three times during my final year of high school. My mother noticed while we were eating dinner, threw down her chopsticks, and cried, "Are you one of those people who sits at the back of the bus?”
― Jen Sookfong Lee, Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

“He will challenge me, physically turn me inside out, and I will like it; the only thing I own is my body, and it will do whatever I say, even if the wisest decision is to do the opposite.”
― Jen Sookfong Lee, The End of East

“A year later, Diana was married and on her way to one day becoming queen. It was done. She was safe. As long as she didn't fuck it up.”
― Jen Sookfong Lee, Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart