Boring Asian Female Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“But the secret was that rock bottom didn’t exist. Each time you thought you had reached the lowest point you could go”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“try-hard”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“They were like ungrateful children”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“Wealth could buy anecdotes to pass around at parties – parties with other lawyers. Maybe that’s why Laura was the Interesting Asian Female”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“That is the beauty of capitalism: as long as you can suppress your current consumerist impulse”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“It’s admirable? No”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“But I’ve long since realized that I cannot project my own identity onto how you live your life. I think that’s something Americans have gotten right – that children deserve to form their own identities”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“What I’ve learned from my dating experience in the city – which you know is still very limited – is that both finance bros and tech bros are not the greatest people”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“No pasta. I didn’t even realize you could ask for no pasta at the pasta bar.”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“I couldn’t sleep that night. The knowledge of Laura’s acceptance to Harvard played in the back of my mind like a horror movie I couldn’t turn off”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“Nowadays they let in anyone who had money”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“Some people just have a thing in their life that they have to do at all costs”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“Getting to New York would mean that I was finally in a place that mattered”
― Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“That is the beauty of capitalism: as long as you can suppress your current consumerist impulse, the market will always feed you a new one.”
― 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