Mary H.K. Choi Books & Quotes

“Everything precious was also vulnerable.”

Source: Emergency Contact

“Dude. Every mom is the most annoying human in the universe, but most of them, besides the super-abusive genuinely bad ones, are in your corner.”

Mom Friends Allies Annoying Girl Bonding

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“Sisters never stand a chance to be friends. We're pitted against each other from the moment we are born. A daughter is a treasure. Two is a tax.”

Sisters

Book:Yolk

Source: Yolk

“Sisters never stand a chance to be friends. We're pitted against each other from the moment that we are born. A daughter is a treasure. Two is a tax.”

Culture Sisters Sibling Rivalry

Book:Yolk

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“People were odd. Sam loved and loathed that about them. Fiction was fine, but real life was the true freak show.”

People

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“It’s fucking art, man,” he said, scowling. “You don’t choose it. It chooses you. If you waste that chance, your talent dies. That’s when you start dying along with it.”

Art

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Source: Emergency Contact

“Unlike cooking, photography kept you on your toes. It was chaotic and human -- utterly unpredictable. to capture an unposed face you had to wait for it. It was spear fishing. you had to move between the competing rhythms of the world and strike.”

Photography Human Chaos

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“Fiction was fine, but real life was the true freak show.”

Life Quotes Life And Living Real Life Fictional

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“When Penny left a banana on her desk as an offering, Jude rejected it. She refused it by putting it on Penny's work chair, so when Penny went to write, she sat on it. As tiny passive-aggressive revenges went, it was adorable, and it killed Penny that they couldn't laugh about it.”

Revenge Laugh Adorable Passive Aggressive Chair Banana Emergency Contact

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“Lorraine was the emotional equivalent of a hollow-point round; the exit wound was a shit show.”

Relationship Breakup

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“In hindsight he was glad it wasn't the good taco spot because it would have been ruined forever. Anyplace that charged seventy-five cents for condiments could burn in hell. On principle.”

Humor Hell Principle Condiments Emergency Contact Taco

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“Penny thought of this Korean saying for when you really, really liked something. You'd say it 'fit your heart exactly.' Sam fit her heart exactly.”

Heart Sayings Emergency Contact

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“Penny believed with her whole heart that there were moments - crucial instances - that defined who someone was going to be. There were clues or signs, and you didn't want to miss them.”

Heart Moments Defined Signs Someone Clues Emergency Contact

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“It's so lonely when no one worries about you.”

Loneliness

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“It wasn't a romance; it was too perfect for that. With texts there were only the words and none of the awkwardness. They could get to know each other completely and get comfortable before they had to do anything unnecessarily overwhelming like look at each other's eyeballs with their eyeballs.”

Romance College Diversity Ya Text Messaging Multicultural Fiction

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Source: Emergency Contact

“There was no way she'd allow him to see her do 97 percent of her normal activities. She was a monster. A monster who was flat as a board with no ass. In fact, the only thing she had going on in the curves department was an enormous cystic pimple on her chin that hurt when she touched it. Yeah, no.”

Romance College Diversity Text Messaging Multicultural Fiction

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“There was no way Penny would go to House and let Sam see her. That would ruin everything. Sam would take one look at her and be like, "Yikes, never mind.”

Romance College Diversity Ya Text Messaging Mulitcultural Fiction

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“Because being in a family is about doing shit you don't want to for the benefit of other people.”

Family Family Relationships Family Quotes

Book:Yolk

Source: Yolk

“People aren't abandoning you just because they go.”

Family

Book:Yolk

Source: Yolk

“There's this whole theory that younger siblings are spoiled. That we're enfeebled from all the mollycoddling. Soft. That by the time it was our turn to rebel, our parents had already given up. I disagree with this wholly. It's first-born who can't take no for an answer. Younger kids have iron constitutions. Hardy hides from lifetimes of rejection. A hundred million entreaties for their older siblings to hang out answered by shoves, eye rolls, slammed doors, and stone-cold ditches followed by peals of laughter.”

Family Family Relationships Siblings

Book:Yolk

Source: Yolk

“She wished she could explore his body and inspect him. Learn him and memorize him. That way she'd know what to miss when he was gone. Sam was heartbreakingly, hauntingly beautiful. It made her heart hurt. This couldn't end well.”

Love Beautiful Longing Crush Love Hurts First Kiss Aching Aching Heart

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“I didn’t know that these flashes of information were even thoughts. Until I did. And that they belonged to me. It was my voice talking to my self except I didn’t have to make a sound.”

Thoughts

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“Finally, if you're wondering if it counts and it feels like it counts, it counts.”

Acknowledgement Author Note

Book:Emergency Contact

Source: Emergency Contact

“And for all the people waiting for permission to level up enough before they start working on something big and scary--just go in. Don't be like me.”

Acknowledgement Author Note

Book:Emergency Contact

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“It's easier to watch myself be sad than actually FEEL SAD.”

Family Relationships Eating Disorders Cancer Journey Sister Love

Book:Yolk

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“Penny gasped as her body shook with laughter, eyes streaming. Sam watched her like she was nuts.”

Friendshipgoals Couplegoals

Book:Emergency Contact

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“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”

Vulnerable Precious The World Traumatizing Emergency Contact Loveing

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“Sam wanted to get up, calmly set his napkin down, and sprint out into the night.”

Night Panic Sprint Emergency Contact Napkin

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Emergency Contact

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