Sarah Kuhn > Quotes

“Why are you trying so hard to figure out what he wants when you already know what you want? If you want something, you have to say it out loud and to the correct person.”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“And suddenly I realize that making things real is more than just “pretty fun.” Making things real means I feel so many things all at once and on a truly visceral level—deep in my bones and my heart and my soul. And right now, all of those things feel amazing.”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“When you go home, I want you to remember that you are boundless,” he says. “That your dreams are not limited by anything—not uncertainty. Not what someone else thinks or says. Not what you think you should be doing versus what makes your heart light up.” He cups my face with one of his hands, his thumb stroking down my cheek. “Watching you embrace your passion is beautiful. And I hope you keep doing that, no matter what else might get in the way. You are so creative, so talented—the way your imagination overflows when you’re inspired …” He shakes his head, smiling slightly. “You have this endless well of passion and when you love something, you love it so fiercely. I am in awe of that. I am in awe of you.”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“I want you to remember that you are boundless”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“I wish I had fought harder for my family history.”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“It strikes me how discombobulating it is to be in a place where so many of the faces look like mine, but where I clearly don’t belong.”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“I want to be around people who feel things that way. Who run toward their passions with so much commitment.”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“There is always a little uncertainty when you love someone,” Grandpa says, polishing off the last of his dessert. “Sometimes that’s part of the magic. Sometimes it means heartbreak. But when you feel strongly enough about someone to endure their bad fish …” He smiles and pats his heart. “Nothing like it, ne?”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“IN THE PANTHEON of Comforting Smells, I ranked McDonald’s french fry grease in the top five. Maybe”
― Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Complex

“There is always a little uncertainty when you love someone,” Grandpa says, polishing off the last of his dessert. “Sometimes that’s part of the magic. Sometimes it means heartbreak. But when you feel strongly enough about someone to endure their bad fish …” He smiles and pats his heart. “Nothing like it, ne?” I find myself smiling and nodding back. I consider his words, turning them over in my mind. And”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“It blows my mind that they all have felt this way. That belonging isn't as easy for other people as I seem to think it is. That everyone, at some point, doesn't feel like a whole version of themselves.”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“There are so many amazing experiences in my future. So many more moments like this. They extend in front of me like the beautiful scarlet tunnel of torii gates. Endless, boundless, unlimited. And I’m going to enjoy every single one of them.”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“Because there's nothing wrong with being angry. You need that anger to tell you when something's not right. To tell you when you care. To show you when you need to fight hard for what you want and stand up for the people you love.”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“And I realize I don’t have to choose between having an existential crisis and making bad decisions—because I’m definitely really good at accomplishing both of those things at the same time.”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“I wish I had fought harder for my family history”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“So our sexperiment has been a long time in the making,' I said. I was going for 'teasing,' but my tone came out more like 'do me on this table right now, please.”
― Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Complex

“Thinking about all that made me realize . . . Going out and doing all those things and being honest about my feelings and telling that boy I like him, moving beyond just fantasizing about those things and making them real - well, yes, it did open me up to hurting and being sad. Heartbroken, even. But I wouldn’t give up those experiences for anything in the world.”
― Sarah Kuhn, I Love You So Mochi

“the well-paid pickings for PhD Program Dropouts Who Only Have Experience Working in Academia were basically nonexistent”
― Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Complex

“There are definitely Japanese people who think I’m just, like, white with a little sprinkle of soy sauce. Or some kind of aberration, an unfortunate dilution of pure Asianness. But it’s not like white people look at my face and think I’m one of them.” I think of all the Beckys who want to hear my accent, all the fetishizing white guys who have said truly disgusting things to my face, all the grown adults who compliment”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“I really wish so many of our communities would just, like, acknowledge that anger isn’t always a bad emotion,” Joanna continues. “Sometimes it’s there to let you know when something’s wrong or to protect you from being mistreated or to tell you that you care. You can’t just reject it—you have to let yourself feel it, make room for it, or all that repressing will burn you up inside. You have to figure out a way to channel it. That’s what I finally realized I had to do.”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“And don’t even get me started on the anti-Blackness in the Korean side of my family,” Mason says, slouching back in his seat. “Fuck that, we’re all Asian—and here, we celebrate that.” He flashes me a charming grin. “Consider yourself celebrated, eh, Rika Rakuyama?”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“Everything I posted is true—and for the sake of our community, I’m just so relieved all your family’s disgusting scandals are finally exposed. That none of you will be part of Nikkei Week and our great traditions now.”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“Oh god. Are you one of those ‘New York is the best city ever, and glitzy, fake-ass LA cannot ever hope to compare’ snobs?”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“Are we really fighting,' he said between kisses, 'about how we're going to have sex?”
― Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Complex

“It's like no one sees all of me, exactly. Because no one wants to.”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“I guess a pregnant fifteen-year-old was just too much for people to handle.”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“And she sure as hell knew how to manipulate me.”
― Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Complex

“What that Craig guy said to you wasn’t just, like, teasing,” he continues. “It was cruel. You said you’re worried about destroying things, but some things need to be destroyed. That doesn’t make you a monster. Not in the way you’re thinking, anyway.”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love

“There was something deeply ironic about the fact that so many of the "exotic" food items that had gotten us teased and bullied by our white classmates were now fetishized by white hipsters.”
― Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Complex

“see passion. I see that you care so much about things—about your family, protecting the people you love, not wanting to hurt them in any way. But I think sometimes that’s hurting you.”
― Sarah Kuhn, From Little Tokyo, with Love