The New Girl Quotes

“and then I won’t be able to go to college, and then I’ll have no future and basically spend the rest of my life licking avocado husks for lunch or whatever it is that boomers think young people should do to get by.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“Who are you trying to protect? This isn’t your world, child. Give any of these kids here a chance and they’ll throw you under the bus, just to make sure this place keeps going, you know what I’m saying?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“When I look up and finally meet Mrs. Henderson’s eye, I see her for what she is: a coward. A greedy, selfish coward who doesn’t give a shit about her students. And I realize, again, how disappointing it is to realize that the adults who are supposed to be looking out for you are only looking out for themselves. This time, I’m not going to let her flick me away like I’m a piece of lint. This bitch is coming down with me.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“Danny’s right about DD; that very same night, Aaron Presley and his buddies take his Bugatti Chevron or Chevy or whatever to party in downtown SF and then proceed to drunk-crash his car into the rose garden when they get back. Everyone’s fine, except for poor Kaylyn Crawford—one of her new silicone boobs exploded, and DD can’t have enough of that nasty piece of info. All those posts about me are quickly drowned out by GIFs of balloons popping.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“She's selling drugs, Illegal drugs, drugs that hurt people, and all because she wants to play the role of dutiful Asian daughter.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“WERNER IS GUILTY... The girl with desperate eyes shrieking like a lamb at the slaughterhouse. She's flunked out and here I am, taking her place.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“She has forty-two first cousins and thirty aunties and uncles, many of whom live just down the road.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“The worst part is, she wouldn’t scold me. She wouldn’t even say anything mean; she’s not that kind of mom. She’d try to hide her disappointment, and she’d hug me and tell me everything would be okay, and all the while, she’d be blaming herself for somehow failing as a mother.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“A myriad if-onlys spin in the air, glittering with a thousand different possible outcomes.... But we all made the choices we made, and every lie that slips out of our mouths brings us that much closer to this moment in time.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“His whole face...breaks into the kind of smile little kids get when you surprise them with a cookie.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“There's sugar in my mouth, and carbs in my belly, and a cute boy at my side. This night is pure magic.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“You pretended you had to go get your laptop because you couldn't afford to buy dinner for yourself after swiping me through?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“And, of course, about me, the evil parasite-slut-whore-witch-bitch who corrupted Danny the golden boy and pushed him into trying to kill me.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“The cops still don’t know much about Mr. Werner’s death, and after the freakishly huge mess of a case, all the school’s benefactors—Danny’s parents included—have swooped down and called in all of the favors they can call in, and the case got shut down before anyone could say, “Drugs?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“I even came clean about Uncle James’s ledger to Mrs. Henderson. All because I was in love with you. That was before I found out my girlfriend’s a fucking murderer!”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“Danny laughs, and now it sounds deranged. “Why? Why do you think? Because she killed my uncle! Everyone here’s out to get Uncle James. First there was Sophie, ranting about him, she had a whole freaking vendetta out against him, and I had to take care of it, and then there was Stacey, and you, and what the hell is wrong with you girls?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“My stomach twists painfully. That dark, sharp sensation, the one that whispers of something wrong, something rotten, resurfaces. And I can’t hide from it anymore.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“Lia, how you feeling? You okay? Everything good? Yes?” Her smile is weighed down with concern as she gives me a once-over. “You’re too skinny. This isn’t good. You don’t got enough muscle mass.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“I’m going to write a whole thing about how I refuse to partake in any history class that insists on lying to its students. It’ll be titled Teach Us the Real History, You Whitewashing Assholes!”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“Oh my god, you are being so paranoid right now. So what if Danny finds out I snooped around in his uncle’s computer? What’s the big deal? I mean, I know the guy’s dead, but let’s face it, he was shady as hell.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“I stand there, panting, and look at Beth. My first friend at Draycott, the girl who took me under her wing. Sweet, studious Beth. She’s kneeling on the floor, crying, grabbing as many of the bags as she can and stuffing them back into a Prada handbag. I was right about her being the drug dealer, but this doesn’t feel at all like victory.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“This is it. He’s going to say he knows it’s suspicious because Mr. Werner was shady as hell, and there are way too many people with motives to kill him, like me, for example, sitting here sweating and squirming. I’ll tell him it was painless, that he died instantly.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“Am I really sitting here comforting him while lying to him? What kind of monster am I? And the worst part of it is that my mind keeps skittering to a single thought: Does the police suspect anything?”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“How can these kids be so heartless? He was their teacher. They were happily buying grades off him! But maybe I’m just being a massive hypocrite, given I killed the guy and everything”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“think I might actually lose it then. I know Grace is only trying to help, but I can’t shake off the feeling that there is something really messed up about Draycott, something that goes even deeper, beyond Mr. Werner selling grades to students. Something tells me that Draycott is rotten, all the way to the core, and nothing I do can ever fix it.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“Get the necklace with the little Coke bottle pendant. That’s cocaine,” Grace says. “It’ll suppress your appetite. You’ll lose weight in no time. Not that you need to lose weight.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“that I’ve found out how badass she is. Just to clarify, I wouldn’t let her take the fall even if she were a basic bitch, but the fact that she’s cool somehow makes it that little bit worse.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“People always think that Indonesia’s some third-world country where people live in shacks and bathe in the river. I guess in the rural parts of the country, it’s like that, but Jakarta is a huge city with ten million people. Ibu describes it as a place filled with skyscraper after skyscraper, luxury hotels and shiny nightclubs and trendy hipster cafes all bunched together in a never-ending metropolis. Compared to Jakarta, Draycott is nothing but a sleepy little town.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“Well, my family’s really close, but we also have way too much drama. We’re like a real-life Korean drama. You don’t even know. Like, one of my cousins got engaged to this white guy last year, and”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl

“Are you thinking of like, gang violence and I dunno, Trump-esque visions of inner-city communities?” Danny grimaces. “Uh. Sorry, I just. I really have no idea what anything outside of the OC is like.” “You’re Indonesian, dude.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, The New Girl