Lata

“why you young people always overthink these things. If you find a boy sexy, just tell him!” Anyway …”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

“You were lost and so was he, from the sounds of it. And so was I, in fact. We were all just groping around in the dark, trying to find our way out of the tunnel. You did the best you could. You provided him with a safe place to go to and good food to eat.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“It had recently dawned to her that the problem with using successfull people as your role models is that they represented a tiny sample size. It didnt take into account all the other people who'd also made 'daring' choices in their lives and wound up at dead ends or just plain dead.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Bloody Christmas

“in her fantasies, a generic bad guy would storm into her teahouse, maybe to rob her, and through her wit and charm and motherly kindness, she would help him see the error of his ways. she would them brew some tea for him and they would talk about where he went wrong and how to fix his life, and over the years, he would attribute every good thing in his life to Vera”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]