Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man] Quotes

“Remember, Vera reminds herself, your ass is bad. Very bad. And that is a good thing.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“I am Chinese mother, all I do is create conflict.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]

“Vera should be content. And she is, really. But she's also kind of - dare she say it - bored.
Sometimes, all an old lady wants is a murder to solve. Is that too much to ask for ?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]

“I am social media star, so I will splash this story all over the social media. You think I won’t? I am Chinese mother, all I do is create conflict. You think CIA know anything about destabilizing? They know nothing compare to me!”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“You know, is good to underpromise and overdeliver.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“Call it mother instinct. I know immediately you need mother attention. And Robin, she desperately need grandmother attention.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

“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

“Sometimes, all an old lady wants is a murder to solve. Is that too much to ask for?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

“You don’t have to take on the whole world at once. Just take one step.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]

“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]

“Penxi swallows thickly. “I’m a scammer.” “You are human trafficking victim. No. You are human trafficking survivor.”
― 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)

“Fear is for toddlers and tiny dogs, not for wise older ladies like herself.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“Now, I think we all agree education is number one important thing in child’s life, so Robin will come back to school tomorrow. I always find this suspension thing very silly, don’t you? Very anti-education. We don’t do such thing in Asia, you know.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“At her age, one does not have the time to look for trouble; rather, one goes on the hunt for it.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“Sixty is the new forty. And my mind is as clear and sharp as a -- a sniper rifle.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]

“But what is life without a little exaggeration now and again? Or, as Vera likes to call it, a little razzle-dazzle.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“If you do not have a mother, you may slip and slide into my DMs. Yes. Yes! Not only does that show how approachable Vera is, it reminds everyone that she is very much up to date with young people these days. She is basically an honorary Gen Z.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“That was pretty freaking badass, Grandma.
Yes, my ass is quite bad.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man]

“He’s a simple dumpling maker, what does he know of scam artists and social media and “clout,” a word that Vera has used four times in the last five minutes?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

“You are in finance? Or maybe drug dealer? Only heroin money can buy this kind of house.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

“If someone were to look through her Instagram profile, they would think Aimes had everything under control, that she lives in a beautifully curated space instead of the mess that dominates her life.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

“My parents and I were in Singapore when my mom fell for a scam caller. I rushed her to the police station, where we told a kindly officer what had happened and filed a report. While filing the report, the officer shared with us stories about scammers and how they were often victims of human trafficking themselves, duped out of their home countries and forced to work as scammers by these traffickers.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“They live in a world full of unchecked capitalism that requires them to move at breakneck speed or threatens to leave them behind.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“Vera has just finished making Chinese Rice Krispies (Rice Krispies Treats but with sesame seeds added to the mix)”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“suddenly,”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

“No. Would you believe it, it’s YouTube money.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

“She looks like the kind of girls Millie looks at on Instagram, the ones with thick, beautifully separated lashes, poreless skin, and full pouty lips. The ones with entire wardrobes that cost more than a luxury car. The ones whose lives look way too good to be true.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

“She cannot stand the sight of the thing. A bachelor of arts in English Lit from Berkeley, like that was ever going to do anything in the real world. All it did was make her unemployable. They should tell you things like that in high school. That, actually, you can’t be anything you want to be, and that studying something like English Lit would only prepare you for disappointment in life.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man

“But that’s the thing about captions. You want to convey perfection while at the same time appearing like you haven’t toiled away at achieving it. You want to be effortlessly perfect. And that was what she and Xander were. Naturally, casually, perfectly perfect.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man