Anne R. Tan > Quotes

“You don’t have to figure out your life’s purpose every time you pick your belly button lint. Just find a passion and pursue it with reckless abandon. When that runs out, find another passion.”
― Anne R. Tan, Murky Passions and Scandals

“The Titanic has left the dock; we’re just steering at this point.”
― Anne R. Tan, Raining Men and Corpses

“The last thing she needed going into Chinese New Year were uncomfortable questions about Ah Gong’s secret family in China. As if she knew why or how her grandfather was able to keep this skeleton for fifty years. At the moment, she wanted to know how his journal ended up in her older sister’s house.”
― Anne R. Tan, Breezy Friends and Bodies

“That’s a man for you. Spent his entire life growing his business outside the home, but an expert in childcare.”
― Anne R. Tan, Raining Men and Corpses

“Graduate student Raina Sun is trying to keep her head above water as the bills roll in when her dashing college adviser cons her out of several months of rent. But her quest to get her money back sets into a motion a streak of bad luck.”
― Anne R. Tan, Raining Men and Corpses

“I love these smarty pants phones. I’m sending out an SOS on Facebook for a secret meeting later this evening at the center. You’ll have to bake me cookies since we’re fighting for your cause.”
― Anne R. Tan, Raining Men and Corpses

“How could a man just glisten when she smelled like the underside of a moldy mushroom?”
― Anne R. Tan, Raining Men and Corpses

“The day’s still young and I'm trying to stay out of trouble."

"What’s the fun in that? Trying to find me some.”
― Anne R. Tan, Breezy Friends and Bodies