The Weddings Quotes

“Jack discovered Scott was not so unique—he was just the first of a kind of white man Jack would meet more of—a type. “Rice queens” were what gay men called men like this, and so when one of Scott’s exes called him a rice king to Jack, he could never forget it.”
― Alexander Chee, The Weddings

“They joked about his suitability for Caleb, and at some point he understood this was what it was like for his straight friends—what it had always been like.”
― Alexander Chee, The Weddings

“it felt healing to be pressed against him. As if some wound he never knew he had healed itself more each time they touched.”
― Alexander Chee, The Weddings

“Had he himself ever felt Korean inside, for example? How would he know? Wouldn’t it just feel like . . . himself? Whatever he’d felt, it was probably not what Scott felt. But also, he was Korean American, not Korean, a distinction he had never been able to explain sufficiently to the white people in his life so far,”
― Alexander Chee, The Weddings