Kathy Wang > Quotes

“Shown her how life could reward the places where you least exerted effort, while denying what you desired and worked so ardently toward most.”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“Julia was tired. She was always tired. But it just seemed so pathetic to complain, to talk about how fatigued you were. Men never said they were tired, which made sense, because compared to women they did fuck-all.”
― Kathy Wang, Impostor Syndrome

“When she was little, she used to daydream of a place she named in her head the Satisfaction Café, which had friendly employees and nice food and pretty toys; even as a child, Joan’s imagination had not stretched to fantastic outcomes but, rather, a reasonable amount of happiness.”
― Kathy Wang, The Satisfaction Café: A Novel

“Life is about solving problems”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“Winston had also violated a key tenet of polite conversation, that one should never compliment his own children when the other party had maligned her own.”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“Joan thought Americans too litigious in general, and if you were the sort to eat plastic fruit or hold a chain saw on the wrong end, then surely you deserved what was coming to you.”
― Kathy Wang, The Satisfaction Café: A Novel

“specializing in the bewildering field of contemplation,”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“She knew now the truth that at first had been so frightening, that success in America was less about what you earned than your particular luck on the day you decided to take it for yourself.”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“Take away the broom, they can’t fly.”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“So Joan told him. She wanted the café to be a place one visited for conversation. Not conversation with just”
― Kathy Wang, The Satisfaction Café: A Novel

“When she was little, she used to daydream of a place she named in her head the Satisfaction Café, which had friendly employees and nice food and pretty toys; even as a child, Joan’s imagination had not stretched to fantastic outcomes but, rather, a reasonable amount of happiness. It seemed to her incredible that the world’s collective adult population, with all its resources and understanding of loneliness, had yet to produce such a space—”
― Kathy Wang, The Satisfaction Café: A Novel

“Publisher”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“Was there a dignified manner to accept someone’s invitation into their home while silently telegraphing your most ardent desire that they go fuck themselves?”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“Drunk women were only attractive when you were trying to sleep with them; afterward, they were just about the worst thing in the world.”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“But she and Winston hadn’t yet developed that inner code between couples for when it was time for the other party to shut up”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“Lately, she’d had the overwhelming sensation that there were no single, seminal moves that completely altered the course of one’s destiny. Instead, life just seemed to be a series of small mistakes, which you continued to make over and over again.”
― Kathy Wang, Family Trust

“Men never said they were tired, which made sense, because compared to women they did fuck-all.”
― Kathy Wang, Impostor Syndrome