“Giant canvases that glorified her naked breasts and half smile, songs rhyming Saina and wanna, unfinished novels about an unknowable girl of dreams – none of that (and she’d had all of it) was as romantic as a boyfriend who would notice that the lightbulb in her hallway had blown out and change it without even bothering to mention the favour.” RomanticBoyfriendLightbulb Book:The Wangs vs. the World Source: The Wangs vs. the World
“As many Chinas as there were, there were that many Charleses as well. Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would have been to him from the inside and the place it must be to him from the outside.” HomeIdentityImmigrationImmigrant Experience Book:The Wangs vs. the World Source: The Wangs vs. the World
“She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd.” WalkingSolitudeSolitaryEscapeWalk Book:The Wangs vs. the World Source: The Wangs vs. the World
“How can we be a polis when 95 percent of us would rather watch aging housewives bicker on TV than express a well-formed opinion of our own?” Politics Observation Author:Jade Chang
“I’m not going to be part of this,” said Leo. He opened his hand and dropped the flowers. Fragrant, obedient, they beheaded themselves on Saina’s salvaged-wood floors.” FlowersBeheaded Book:The Wangs vs. the World Source: The Wangs vs. the World
“But she couldn't formulate the sentence in Chinese. Her knowledge of the language only extended to the daily necessities and small affections.” ImmigrantsTruthsLanguage Barrier Author:Jade Chang
“Oh, the anxious, aging wives of his white business associates, fingers weighted down with diamonds, constantly tittering on about how busy they were with this committee meeting and that school event, all the while shedding pretty tears for dark-skinned children in distant countries. Charles loved being around them. They flattered him like concubines, wheedling checks for orphans in Burma or wells in Namibia, angling for ever-larger donations of cosmetics to put on the block at one of the endless silent auctions for their children's private schools. Nothing made him feel better than tossing off a check that elicited a breathy gasp of pleasure from one of the wives.” VanityPhilanthropyWealthy Elite Book:The Wangs vs. the World Source: The Wangs vs. the World