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Justina Chen is an American Chinese author born in 1968. Her works often focus on the experiences and identity of Asian Americans, which are deeply loved by readers.

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“To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.”

Dream Doubt North Of Beautiful

Author:Justina Chen

“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.”

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“Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.”

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“Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”

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“Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee." Cup coffee?" Taste it." What? Are you the coffee police or something?”

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“Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.”

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“Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”

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“Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”

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“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”

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Book:North of Beautiful

Source: North of Beautiful

“You raze the old to raise the new.”

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Author:Justina Chen

“[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.”

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“When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.”

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“The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.”

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“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?”

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“You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.”

North Of Beautiful

Author:Justina Chen

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Born: 1968
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 51

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