40 Quotes by Susan Choi

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.

Ive at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, I would give anything for this not to be happening. And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, Im kind of glad that happened to me.

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

Thoughts are often false. A feeling’s always real. Not true, just real.

I always knew I was one of the ones who would leave.

They were all children who had previously failed to fit in, or had failed, to the point of acute misery, to feel satisfied, and they had seized on creative impulse in the hope of salvation.

To David, love meant declaration. Wasn’t that the whole point? To Sarah, love meant a shared secret. Wasn’t that the whole point?