Boring Asian Female Quotes

“Some things in life are so magnificent that you can never talk about them enough, that no number of references would make them boring or derivative.”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“Through the darkness I caught a glimpse of the person who I could become: A person who loved and let herself be loved, a person who defined herself as a person rather than a list of qualifications. A person who was still a work in progress.”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“And this gave me a bittersweet feeling: both that I was able to enjoy something that Laura couldn’t, and that someone could take it away from me at any second, the same way that I had taken it from Laura. My gratitude came from the newfound understanding of just how much I stood to lose. — The clarity that the trip provided me faded away once I returned to campus.”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“I just have to. I can’t explain it. Some people just have a thing in their life that they have to do at all costs, that brings them meaning in a way that nothing else can,” she said. “In the end, it doesn’t matter whether I become rich and famous, whether I get into a prestigious orchestra or become a soloist. I still have to do it. And even if I fail and end up teaching violin at a middle school orchestra in the middle of nowhere, I don’t think that I will look back and regret my choice.”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“I was a Boring Asian Female - but right now that was okay, because no one would believe that a Boring Asian Female could also be a killer.”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“The people I spent the most time around were those in my predominantly white high school, people who saw me as the other, as a foreigner, as someone who would never be quite the same as them. Growing up in this environment, I had learned how to perceive myself the way that they perceived me. Sometimes, it felt as though I had two identities: who I really was, and who others perceived me to be. And as I stared at myself in the mirror, with my tight ponytail and tortoiseshell glasses, my ripped Stanford shirt and baggy sweatpants, I saw not the first but the second, not the me that I knew, but the person that others knew as me.”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female