Jean Kwok
Jean Kwok is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Leftover Woman (coming 10/10/23), Girl in Translation, Mambo in Chinatown, and Searching for Sylvie Lee, which was a Read with Jenna Today Show Pick. Her work has been published in twenty countries and is taught in schools across the world.
She immigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and earned an MFA from Columbia University. She divides her time between the Netherlands and New York City.
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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.”
Jean Kwok
“I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?”
Jean Kwok
“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”
Jean Kwok
“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”
Jean Kwok
“You may need to change your dreams.”
Jean Kwok
“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.”
Jean Kwok
“Nobody can change who you are, except for you.”
Jean Kwok
“I never want to love someone like that,not even him,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.”
Jean Kwok
“Brains are beautiful.”
Jean Kwok