Mimi > Mimi's Quotes

“I think my mom is manic, but Chinese people don't believe in psychologists. We just drink more tea when things go bad. Sometimes I agree; I think we're all over diagnosed.”
― Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat

“I love the idea of homeland, but not the actual return to one.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“...I try to live without interfering in the lives of others because I have no wish for them to interfere in mine.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman