44 Quotes by Justina Chen

Hey, if it’s a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it’s your last.

Teachers wondered why I didn’t speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.

Come on, don’t you ever stop and smell the coffee?

From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn’t the right one. – Jacob.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.