Rent a Boyfriend Quotes

“They remind me that there’s beauty and greatness out there, even in the darkness, and that I need to look for it.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“Remember when you were young,” I said, still gazing out the window even though my parents were out of view, “and things seemed so easy yet so hard? I wish we’d known then to enjoy it while it lasted.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“All relationships have problems. It’s how you solve them that matters.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“Human mouths are frigging disgusting.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“Sometimes I'm ashamed of how I've clung to them with bloody, torn-apart hands, trying to make it work even after they show me again and again it's not worth it. But I'm somehow also ashamed of choosing myself now.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“I wanted to reach into my chest and hand her my heart, so she could finally understand what made me tic. Maybe then she would also see how each of her words perpetuated the crack she and my father had put there months ago.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“That desire to move forward out of love, even when it wasn’t perfect. Even when there was still anger underneath. Anger that, I hoped, would fade in time.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“My drive, my loyalty, my selflessness—they were fostered by the community too. And I could love those pieces without embracing the negative parts.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“I’m not an object, I’m not anyone’s property, and I’m just done with all this. I don’t care what any of you think of me anymore—for the first time, and much too long overdue.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“To have that pressure, that need to please them even though you were hurting yourself to do it.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“Apparently, those “display-only” soaps (which, in my defense, had been located closer to the sink than the regular soap) had been in her family for fucking generations, as if that were a thing. Not that I’d know—the only family heirloom we Chans passed down was insecurity and an inability to communicate.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“With guests, she only had two extremes: so polite it was fake or so honest you wished she’d lie.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“A tear rolled down my cheek. This week had flown by too fast. I wasn’t ready to pop our bubble yet. But it was already popped. All the decisions I’d been putting off, rushed in, demanding my attention.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“Ya sabes, lo que dijiste. Vamos a pasarnos de la raya cientos de kilómetros, hasta olvidarnos siquiera de que existe.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend

“El sueño es el hermano engañoso del alcohol.”
― Gloria Chao, Rent a Boyfriend