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Jean Kwok is a writer whose works often focus on themes of immigration and identity. Her specific birth and death dates are unknown.

Girl in Translation

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Searching for Sylvie Lee

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Fate

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“While nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth.”

Growth Loss

Book:Searching for Sylvie Lee

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“We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was”

Life Lessons

Book:Girl in Translation

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“Ma told me that while nothing can replace that which is lost, emptiness creates room for new growth.”

Life Loss

Book:Searching for Sylvie Lee

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“It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.”

Memory Kiss Love Affair

Book:Girl in Translation

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“I only had the morning to get my work done. I had to be really efficient. I'd let the others take the easy questions in class and wait to answer the hardest ones. I'm Asian and a woman, which shouldn't matter but did anyway. It was clear sometimes that no matter how hard I worked, I didn't qualify to be a member of the in club.”

Feminism Anti Racism Allyship

Book:Searching for Sylvie Lee

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“No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.”

People Giving May Doe Matter Debt Decent Flawed

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“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”

Different Sometimes Fate

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“What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.”

Mind Looks Persons Relationship

Book:Girl in Translation

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“Nobody can change who you are, except for you.”

Who You Are

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“You may need to change your dreams.”

Needs May Dream Your Dreams Need A Change Preparedness Emergency Preparedness

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“When I’m with you, I could drink water and be full.”

Water Drink Drink Water

Author:Jean Kwok

“I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.”

Force Decision Wind

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“I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn't be able to survive if he left me.”

Ifs Want Would Be Able Left Rooms Love Someone He Left Me

Author:Jean Kwok

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