10 Quotes by E.J. Koh

You wouldn’t understand,” she said, and frowned. “My daughter teaches people how to let go.

Your brother can be mean only when he is unsure of himself.

What we see changes according to what we look for.

I ignored my desk and watched the storefronts and houses regurgitate objects through their doorways.

Some believe that if we’re not smart like your mother and brother, we can’t accomplish things. But we can if we are: one, funny, and two, humble.

Nobody loves you like your mother and father. Not your husband, and not your children. While your parents are alive, eat as much of their love as you can, so it can sustain you for the rest of your life.

You know my grandmothers,” I said, and pointed at my nose, a habit I had picked up when I lived in Japan. “I’m an accumulation of their lives. Whatever I say or do now can give relief to the past – and to them. I don’t believe they’re ever gone.

Neither happiness nor sadness are ever done with us. They are always passing by.

They say a person has so unique a set of meanings we ought to be incapable of understanding each other, yet we speak and teach as if by magic.