Like Mandarin Quotes

“You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“I used to wonder what it would look like if all my footsteps were painted red: all the steps I'd ever taken in all the places I'd ever been.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“I liked the idea—that we left pieces of ourselves everywhere we went, coloring all our important places.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“We’re always itching to go, to move on, to escape. We convince ourselves we could truly be happy if only we were somewhere else. Or somebody else.
While it’s smart to plan for the future, we won’t find real happiness if our eyes never leave the horizon. When we’re all rushing off in different directions, we miss the worthwhile places, and worthwhile people, already around us.
But we can’t wait for them to chase us down—we’ve got to seek them out. Because for two people to meet in the middle, both have to take that first step.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“She turned up the volume. I listened for a second to the high-pitched garble of Italian. "Taffeta," I said, "how is this your favorite part? You don't even know what the words mean."

"I do too," she insisted.

"No you don't--they're in another language."

"Yes I do, Grace." She swiveled the volume knob. "Listen.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“We could liberate a million trophies. We could fill every river to the brim. But it would never fully substitute for liberating ourselves.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“A person's actions could be interpreted in a number of ways, depending on who was watching. Their viewpoints were simply skewed by their beliefs, their prejudices, and their private desires. Their personal kaleidoscopes. I couldn't judge them, of course. I was the same way.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“What's the good of being alive if you don't do anything?”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“I found it mildly depressing that the height of color in Washokey came from the seasonal produce shipped from other states.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“I once heard you can't truly hate a person until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them" -Mandarin”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“What a fucking gorgeous night!”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin

“I just had to find the courage to take that first step.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Like Mandarin