The Satisfaction Café Quotes

“When she was little, she used to daydream of a place she named in her head the Satisfaction Café, which had friendly employees and nice food and pretty toys; even as a child, Joan’s imagination had not stretched to fantastic outcomes but, rather, a reasonable amount of happiness.”
― Kathy Wang, The Satisfaction Café: A Novel

“Only a few years earlier Joan could not have conceived that she would be bone-tired at the end of each day but not wish for any other existence. That she would believe”
― Kathy Wang, The Satisfaction Café: A Novel

“So Joan told him. She wanted the café to be a place one visited for conversation. Not conversation with just”
― Kathy Wang, The Satisfaction Café: A Novel

“When she was little, she used to daydream of a place she named in her head the Satisfaction Café, which had friendly employees and nice food and pretty toys; even as a child, Joan’s imagination had not stretched to fantastic outcomes but, rather, a reasonable amount of happiness. It seemed to her incredible that the world’s collective adult population, with all its resources and understanding of loneliness, had yet to produce such a space—”
― Kathy Wang, The Satisfaction Café: A Novel

“Joan thought Americans too litigious in general, and if you were the sort to eat plastic fruit or hold a chain saw on the wrong end, then surely you deserved what was coming to you.”
― Kathy Wang, The Satisfaction Café: A Novel