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

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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. more

“I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal. Oh yeah?" he said. Unexpectedly, Max swiveled around, yanked his pants down. The last thing I thought I had wanted to see tonight was Merc walking out the door. I was wrong. It was this stranger's rear end. "Please don't tell me this is one of those stripping telegrams?”

Ifs Said Ends Bigs Wanted Lasts Deals Doors Week Walking Please Yeah Stranger Tonight Pants Surgery Big Deal Max Stripping Lasers Walking Out Telegrams Birthmarks Walking Out The Door

Author:Justina Chen

“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?”

Ifs Way Firsts Waiting Wonder Hair Taste Police Smell Coffee Cups Bugs Coffee Cup North Of Beautiful

Author:Justina Chen

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”

People Humans Mean Littles Order Fear Race Remains Affair Human Race Meaning Of Life Monotonous

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”

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Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

“The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.”

Men World Needs Desire Wish Fool Affair Honour Toil Trickery Deference

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”

Feels Wells Kind Seems Quality Models Ideals Perfection Mortals Contentment

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.”

Died

Book:Timbuktu: A Novel

Source: Timbuktu: A Novel

“The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.”

Ideas States Constant Waking Departure Arriving Crayon Waking Life

Author:Richard Linklater

“...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.”

Littles Long Humanity Levels Loneliness Ordinary Rose Curse Long Ago

Book:The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .

Source: The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .

“There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.”

Matter Moments Asks Oneself Appearance Mood Trousers Jeeves

Book:Wonderful Wodehouse 2: A Collection: Thank You Jeeves, Right Ho Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters

Source: Wonderful Wodehouse 2: A Collection: Thank You Jeeves, Right Ho Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters

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