Lies and Weddings Quotes

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“armies of immigrants. You see them up and down all those streets—they’re the gardeners, the housekeepers, the construction workers, they’re doing all the work nobody else wants to do. So why make it so hard for them to come here and do it? It’s such a tragic farce.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“I don’t know how you do it, Mum. You sit there judging everyone in the world except yourself.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“Its presence here is an insult to Hawaiians and to all the activists who have been fighting so hard to block the construction of a new telescope on the mountain.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“No one had any inkling that behind all the magazine features and Instagram stories of the glamorous Greshams—luxuriating in couture at their swoon-worthy manor, glistening with golden tans aboard their antique black-sailed yacht in the Ionian Sea—rose a gargantuan mountain of debt.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“You are also getting too much sun and people will think you are a peasant.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“To me, it's a statement about urbanization and materialism. You know, how everything's become a luxury brand these days.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“... you know what I recently read? LACE, by Shirley Conran,' Arabella said, noticing the book jutting out on the shelf right behind Cosima's shoulder.

'WHICH ONE OF YOU BITCHES IS MY MOTHER?' Cosima said with a sneer.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. —Lionel Stander”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“We are all standing on the vagina of our planet, as it births fresh new land right before our very eyes in the form of this beautiful molten lava flowing below us. This island is literally growing in size every day, like a teenager in puberty watching her titties swell…”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“The feng shui was especially good on Hong Kong Island because the city was situated with the mountain at its back and the ocean at its feet. This was why so many great fortunes were made here.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“The feng shui was especially good on Hong Kong Island because the city was situated with the mountain at its back and the ocean at its feet.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“wrapped”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“that led from the beach to a road that”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“with sadness. Everything about the place seemed desperately out of balance. Even as she drove down Benedict”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“Most weddings aren’t any fun. Most people go through so much fuss and spend so much money and almost kill themselves just for one day.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“Yes, it’s that Captain Lee, taking a little break from the Caribbean, incompetent deckhands, psychotic chefs, and chief stews who will never be as good as Kate Chastain.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings

“You’ve succeeded in destroying your own life, and now you’re trying to destroy your children’s lives, but let me promise you one thing: you will never destroy mine!”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“You are so self-righteous, you think you’re better than the rest of us just because you’re Florence Nightingale.” “Florence Nightingale was a nurse. I am a doctor.” “See what I mean? One little degree from Cambridge and you think you’re god’s gift.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“I’m wasted because I have to look at your putrid face! You’re nothing but a sad broke bitch married to a pathetic loser with a mediocre wine collection. Well, guess what?”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“Eden, you’re way too good for these fuckers. I thought this dinner was going to be tedious as shit but this is the most fun I’ve had all week! You people treat me like I’m not good enough to set foot in this house, but it turns out you’re just a bunch of lying hypocrites!”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“Martha Dung is the right kind. She has an aristocratic bearing, she’s not too dark, she’s not too short, and she is well educated.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“She’d never asked to be kissed by Rufus. That damn kiss had ruined everything. So why was she the one feeling all the guilt, as if she had committed a cardinal sin?”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“Typical Hong Kong man—his sons are more precious than his wife. Peter and my sons are Leungs, I am not. He can always get another wife, hai ma? A younger, tighter model.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“want your baby to grow up being called a bastard? You will be shunned by society. Every door will be closed to you, Mary. Every opportunity, every sponsorship deal, will evaporate. You will become a nobody. How are you going to support your baby if you’re a nobody?”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“Arabella snorted. “In all my years living in England, I’ve never once set foot in an Accessorize!” “That’s because you’re a snob. There’s a very nice one on High Street Ken.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“You mean to say you let Arabella spend—how many hundreds of millions—building the resort of her dreams, and none of it is insured?”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“I’m so tired of you projecting all your issues onto me!” “Issues? What issues?” “Whenever you talk about trashy people, why must they always be Chinese? Why are they never European or royal? Have you seen how tacky some of Maxxie’s Norwegian cousins are?”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings

“Despite all your inadequacies, you have managed to marry into his illustrious clan, and every single member of that clan—which as you know includes most of the crowned and uncrowned heads of Europe—now thinks that their darling Prince Maxxie has married a harlot.” “I am not a harlot.”
― Kevin Kwan, Lies & Weddings