12 Quotes by Amanda Sun

Hana yori dango. Dumplings over flowers. It basically means that someone should value needs over wants, substance over appearance. As in, make sure you have food and shelter before you burn money on something extravagant. And, you know, choose genuine friends who will be there for you over pretty, shallow ones. Don't get carried away by beauty if it leaves you empty.

Just be the strong woman you are, like me. If the guys can't handle us, it's their problem.

That's all any of us have in the end, isn't it? there is death ahead of all of us. And so we live.

Itterasshai. Go and come back safely.

Just like in our kendo matches, where we only felt briefly safe with our shinai thrust between us, keeping each other at arm's distance was the only way to trust each other. That way, no one would lunge, and either of us could retreat.We lived in parallel worlds, somehow held together by the axis of each other.

I hope he draws for you.

How do you win when you’re up against yourself?

Those are big words for a rice ball,” I said, flicking him in the shoulder. “I’m not a rice ball, Greene. Do you know the meaning of the myoji for ‘Satoshi’? Wisdom. It’s wisdom, Jackass.

It was like the vine of him had wrapped around her heart and bloomed into a hundred flowers overnight, when she wasn’t looking.