The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist) Quotes

“All this time”
― Lisa Ko, The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel

“Yi Ba thought anything bad that happened to a woman was her fault. It made me sick. If a woman was unmarried it was her fault for being ugly or independent; if a woman was too devoted to her husband it was her fault for being mushy and desperate; if a husband had a girl on the side it was the wife’s fault for driving him away and both the mistress and wife’s faults for letting themselves get taken advantage of.”
― Lisa Ko, The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel

“You couldn’t omit your own child from the story of your life”
― Lisa Ko, The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel