Jean Kwok

There's a Chinese saying that the fates are winds that blow through our lives from every angle, urging us along the paths of time. Those who are strong-willed may fight the storm and possibly choose their own road, while the weak must go where they are blown. I say I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

You may need to change your dreams.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?