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“When people who don't know you well admire you, they are seeing their projected illusion, not your real self.
In contrast, when people who know you well respect you, it is probably because you deserve it.”
― Haemin Sunim, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World

“Predictable care that supports a healthy and empowering relationship embodies what we call the “Four S’s”—helping kids feel (1) safe—they feel protected and sheltered from harm; (2) seen—they know you care about them and pay attention to them; (3) soothed—they know you’ll be there for them when they’re hurting; and (4) secure—based on the other S’s, they trust you to predictably help them feel “at home” in the world, then learn to help themselves feel safe, seen, and soothed. When we can offer kids the Four S’s, making repairs whenever the inevitable ruptures in these connections with our children may occur, we help create what’s called “secure attachment,” and it’s absolutely key to optimal healthy development.”
― Daniel J. Siegel, The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired

“Becoming is better than being”
― Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
― Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

“I'd tell anyone who wants to be a podcaster, the same thing others have recommended - find a niche you're passionate about and willing to be immersed in.”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

“Meddy, how can you say that? Your aunties coming over, so late at night, coming to help us get rid of body, and we don’t even offer them any food? How can? Oh, we have dragon fruit, good, good.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“You're not a mess. You just kill by accident only. Bad luck. Can happen to anyone.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“I look at the ceiling. Pretty sure that when Glad was planning their marketing campaign, they didn’t think their target market would be a bunch of middle-aged Chinese women arguing about how to best dispose of a body.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“Or maybe the business is dealing coke. Or human trafficking. Wow, I have a low opinion of my family.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“I hear about this kind of Internet scam before. Is called goldfish.” “Catfish,” I say. “No, I’m sure is call goldfish. Because pretend got gold, but actually just a fish.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“I’m basically driven by a mixture of caffeine and familial guilt.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“Don’t leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“I told you to buy Glad brand. Haven’t you seen their ads? Glad bags will hold his cut-up body just fine, no leaks!”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“Some of the aunties in Dial A for Aunties speak the sort of broken English that my parents’ generation does. Their grasp of the English language is not a reflection of their intelligence, but a reflection of the sacrifice that they have made for us. They are, in essence, trilingual, and I am so proud of this heritage.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“My eyes fill with tears. All these years, I have never seen it that way, but Ma’s right. I did grow up with four mothers, and it really has been amazing. There’s been so much love in my life that I took for granted.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“Lord help me, we are literally talking about fridging the dude.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“Yes, you right, more respectful". She pats me on the cheek. "I raise you so well".

Hysteria rises from deep in my stomach and I have to swallow it. Trust Ma to take pride in my etiquette when I've just shown her my date, whom I've killed, in the trunk of my car.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“Who drugged you?” Sheriff McConnell roars. “I mean, I don’t know. I’d like to know, that was some good stuff—er, I mean, yeah, that was really uncool, drugging us like that,”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“What is with the Chinese-Indo community and their hard-on for Hermès?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“He trick me? Use me get to my daughter!?” Big Aunt nods solemnly. “I hear about this kind of Internet scam before. Is called goldfish.” “Catfish,” I say. “No, I’m sure is call goldfish. Because pretend got gold, but actually just a fish.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A for Aunties

“always reply in English no matter which language my family is speaking because Second Aunt says listening to me struggle through Indonesian or Mandarin makes her blood pressure rise.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Dial A For Aunties

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx