The Fortunes Of Jaded Women Quotes
"EVERYONE IN ORANGE COUNTY’S Little Saigon knew the Dương sisters were cursed."
"Like all slighted Vietnamese women, Lan Hoàng wished for the type of scarring that would make her wanton daughter-in-law and all her future kin ostracized forever."
"Only women were brave enough to tempt fate like that."
"The rustling wind had been her enemy one day, and her friend the next."
"Because there was nothing wrong with having Vietnamese daughters. It was how the world treated them that turned it into a curse."
"Gossip was the only true currency that had weight—aside from gold bars, jade with 14-karat gold trimming, and other bits of jewelry that could be easily sewn into linings in times of war."
"You can tell if jade is real by how cool the stone feels against your skin."
"Humans were stubborn, and Vietnamese women were the most stubborn of them all."
"Careful, Chị, this might be the year you lose everything. Apologies don’t mean anything when it’s too late."
"I’ll speak to them when I get my apology."
"Your daughters, your sisters, and your mother. Especially your mother. You all have been fighting for too long."
"I don’t know how to fix them. I’ve never known."
"That’s because you are the unhappiest out of all of them."
"In fact, we’re better. We provide entertainment."
"Don’t lie to us! You got them from the white grocery store!"
"They’ve been away from their homeland for nearly a century."
"No shaman, monk, or traveling priest from the Philippines would be able to undo the spell inflicted on Oanh’s lineage."
"Whenever miscarriages for sons happened, followed by the delivery of a firstborn daughter, a witch’s work was at play."
"All she could do was prepare herself for the type of generational heartbreak that came with daughters."
"All my life, you’ve been dictating my love life. I can’t date Vietnamese, I can’t date white, I can’t date Black, I can’t date poor, I can’t date old, I can’t date anyone according to you."
"There is no such thing as love in a marriage!"
"Our family is cursed. Cursed for giving me such a stupid daughter."
"Like I said earlier, Chị. This is the year where if you are not careful, you could stand to lose it all."
"You can be honest with me; you don’t need to cover up what it is you actually do."
"You should marry French men. Make half-Asian babies who will grow up to be beautiful."
"I tell Joyce there are plenty of curator jobs in Los Angeles, but she won’t come back. She’s too important in New York City."
"I swear, I’m more Asian than my girlfriend sometimes."
"I want to be there for you. You just need to let me in. Please, I’m begging you. I want to be the perfect son-in-law one day, the perfect husband."
"When are you ever going to let me in, Thủy?"
"My Joyce has handled the rarest art from around the world. Oldest, most expensive. Her job is important, archiving all these important things, making sure they are categorized and preserved for all of history. For all of humanity. Not just anyone can do what she does. She’s practically God, preserving history for all our future children to see."
I AM NOT A PIMP!" Mrs. Lâm screamed into the void. "I am a businesswoman!
"I think maybe now is the year you reach out to your sisters and mother again. All your sisters."
"Like I said, there are things worse than death."
"Trời ơi, how can I sleep, Auntie? I have demons knocking at my door every night."
"I curse Oanh Dương to wander the afterlife alone. Unable to visit her children when she passes."
"Long after the sun had disappeared behind the rolling desert hills, Daniel finally took her home and dropped her off around the corner, since she knew that Andy would be home."
"Routine. Stability. Comfort. And Thủy was about to blow it all up."
"How could she do this to sweet, golden retriever Andy? Her Andy? Andy made his own kimchi from scratch."
"Thủy had become her worst nightmare. She had grown up and become like her father. A cheat, liar, and gambler."
"Mrs. Lý Minh Dương REALLY only had one regret in her lifetime."
"Once the trunk had been hit, the branches had little to no chance of survival."
"It’s your duty as a Vietnamese woman to have children."
"As Mrs. Lâm fell down on her knees and began to chant, asking the Buddha to help guide her, she dug deep within her soul."
"She wondered if she’d been too hard on them, and if they resented her or not."
"Mrs. Lý Minh Dương had seen her death coming."
"No wonder you all put Mẹ into an early grave! She had to die to escape all of you and get some peace!"
"To all my daughters, I’ve left a letter to each of you, explaining how much you meant to me."
"They say that the firstborn daughter is the hardest to raise. I was lucky to have two firstborn daughters."
"Forget it. You think I’m always the dramatic one? Look in the mirror."
"You make everything so fucking difficult. Who the hell would ever want to be chained to you, your family shitshow, and your insane mother?"
"All my daughters want for me is to be happy, so yes, of course they will be happy if I am happy."
"No, I’m not okay. Can I please come home? I need you."
"What did you think we were going to do here? Chew on tobacco all night?"
"It’s par for the course when drinking soju. I wasn’t talking about ordering a buffet."
"I’m well versed in Korean drinking culture, thanks very much."
"Because I’d need to be able to put out the fires you start with the lasers coming out of your eyes."
"A Midwestern Korean guy and a SoCal Vietnamese girl, breaking bread like this? Maybe there is hope for world peace after all."
"The ‘damned if I am and damned if I’m not’ question."
"I’m not gonna be one of those guys in a Korean drama that would live and die for the girl, you know what I mean?"
"Well, maybe you’re just not Korean enough."
"All you can do is manage it, as time goes on."
"It’s been a long time since anyone’s voice made her want to stay a little longer and listen."
"Who are you getting dolled up for anyways?"
"What’s the point of having daughters if they don’t take care of me in my old age!"
"You’re the CEO of your own company, you went to Harvard, why are you pining for Jeff of all people?"
"There’s a reason why the ocean is losing oxygen; it’d rather die out than choke on any more mediocre dick."
"Can’t be Black in America. Can’t be Asian. What can you be here anyways?"
"Everyone’s lonely in Neverland. Even wild animals need rules."
"We didn’t have to get married. I was more than okay just growing old in this house together."
"It’s okay to go into the unknown for a while, maybe even forever."
"Don’t settle for the first thing that comes your way."
I’m afraid," she whispered. "You and I, we’re not cut from the same cloth, okay?
We’re going back to my place," she said, grabbing his collar. "Right now.
"You’re not one of those white guys who only dates Asian girls, right?"
"An endless circle. No Dương woman shall ever bear a son."
"I spent years. Years. Trying to break you and Andy up, because I simply didn’t want you to end up like how your father and I did."
"My name is Linh Hứa. But you may call me Auntie Hứa."
"Being a grandmother changes things, you know."
"I promise to make it up to you forever."
"Everything is fake. 401(k)s, lashes, contouring, sneakerheads, those K-town boys up in Pacific Palisades, college degrees, six figures, marriage. It’s all for show."
"I’d rather die alone than be miserable in a marriage like all the women in our family have been."
"I could never control her. So stubborn."
"And look how they turned out! Financially stable, full of accolades, and all in healthy relationships!"
"You need to live for yourself. Have you considered meditation?"
"This is all good! Enjoy an empty house, enjoy the silence!"
"I wasn’t strong enough to not allow my past to dictate my future."