Home Remedies Quotes

“Fear of Flying (Because every time you fly, you land somewhere new and you have to make new friends.) Leave something you love in every city you've lived in. A record player in Shanghai, a kitten in Seattle, your best dresses hanging in a closet in Paris. That way you'll always have a reason to retrace your steps back to old friends. So it means you won't have to stay away forever. Learn to enjoy being alone, appreciate the silence of dinners where an entire roast duck can be gnawed away, cartilage and all, without conversational interruption. You are free and oh-so-mysterious. Think: Friends, who needs friends?”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies

“Experts in the fashion industry say the first clothes that people are drawn to are instinctual. Think of your favorite clothes as a child. Then as you mature, you focus deeper into the self. Now you favor clothes that involve sexuality, yours and other people's. You begin to reflect your profession, your mental state, then address your personal affectations. Your personhood. And then you start to look into the world. At society and history and nature. You feel for texture and you create contrasts and distance.”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies

“Instead of adding forms where nothing existed, I would recollect the fragments I'd left behind. If I left something in every city I've ever lived, with every person I've ever loved, at every building I've ever called home, then I would go looking.”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies

“Everything memorable is irrational.”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies

“I lectured that the family home was a deposit box of emotions, and that reading other people's diaries was just another opportunity to encounter yourself.”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies

“Theirs was a Chinese love. It was not about making each other happy. It was about sacrifice. It was a love devoted to suffering for the beloved. They were supposed to sacrifice over and over again for each other, each getting a turn to give up something he or she did not want for the other, until one of them died.”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies

“Everything I thought was cool was actually Berlin.”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies

“Someone is about to give away the mystery of loneliness and then the train comes. A reason for living, the train comes, why she never loved him, the train comes, source of hope, train, lifetime of regret, train, never-ending heartache, train, train, train, train train.”
― Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies