My Sweet Girl Quotes

“(and I use the term we to mean all of us who have been dealt the shitty hand of having too much melanin in this Clorox-white world)”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Find someone with brown skin and black hair and figure they all come from India, and they all know to drape a fucking sari and make curry and dance the goddamn bhangra. It wasn’t just this drunk bitch in the bathroom—I was so often being mistaken for some other brown chick, whether or not they looked anything like me.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“I practically held his damn chai for him while he stuck the knife in my back.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Don’t get me wrong. It was fucking hilarious watching you go crazy. But there’s something more important that I wanted.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“I wasn’t going to let any of the other girls suffer the way I had. With psychos locked in closets and evil nuns and a fucking pedophile.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Paloma, she lost her baby. It was just a few months ago. She hasn’t been quite right in the head since. Her husband told me. He apologized to me today. Her medicine, it makes her act strange.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“servants who couldn’t keep their legs together in the Middle East. To women who leave their daughters with their abusive fathers on their search for work. This can’t get out. It would ruin me. Most people would call me a saint, you know?”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“One thing you can say about my mother is that she never wasted time. One brown girl out of the picture, a new one swiftly takes her place. And she even gave her the book. My book. The copy of Wuthering Heights that was a welcome present to my new life from my new family.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“This neighborhood was far too nice for a husband who was at home on a weekday morning. Maybe he worked for one of those new-age startups that let you connect in remotely?”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“I watched the way she always got what she wanted. It came naturally to her, and not just because she was always the most beautiful woman in the room. Not all beautiful people had what she had—this inherent knowledge to always say and do the right thing. To get everyone to like her.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Green Goddess smoothie, please. Large.” Yes, that’s right. I was a fucking walking cliché. All I needed was a crop top, oversized hoops, and those ridiculous high-waisted mom jeans that made my ass look like the back of a Camaro to fit right in. I couldn’t help it though. I fucking loved green smoothies.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“till I found some nondescript, basic rom-com featuring a cast of interchangeable white characters who managed to afford apartments and wardrobes way above their pay grade. Just the kind of unrealistic, mind-numbing bullshit I needed.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Hey, hey, why don’t you look at me? Why do you have to be so proud? No one likes a proud bitch, you know. Not even in America. You’ll just do sex and become a whore there anyway, so no point keeping such a big head.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“I get paid a fair bit of money to send naughty Polaroids and pairs of my used underwear to people who can’t get laid in real life. It’s almost like a community service, if you think about it.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“I know I’m brown, but isn’t San Francisco supposed to be a fucking melting pot of cultures? Isn’t that what it says on every damn blog post about the place? San Francisco—the poster child for cultural”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Sick fuck. Nothing pisses me off more than my skin being perpetually compared to food—caramel, honey, mocha, syrup. I mean, get more creative if you’re trying to commodify me, asshole.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“The setting sun gave everything a golden sheen. It was Instagram heaven. I thought about posting a picture of the skyline but decided against it. Too cheesy. I flipped my phone”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Could people’s lives really change like that, just because of how fair or dark they are?”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“California! That was in America! America, like we saw on TV! America, where beautiful, light-haired women roller-skated on the beach, and they drank milkshakes, and ate burgers and french fries, and went shopping and got these big, beautiful cardboard bags”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Your beau, dear. We can hear you upstairs, you know, arguing all the time. I know you are from a place where people are very, well, what’s the word, hot-blooded, you know. But that’s no excuse to take it out on your man. It simply doesn’t do for a lady to behave that way.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“This thinly veiled pedo’s request wasn’t even the creepiest one I’d got. The world was full of sick assholes, and here I was, afraid of a ghost from when I was twelve years old.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“An unemployed thirty-year-old who sold her panties to perverts and just found her blackmailing snake of a roommate bleeding out on the kitchen table?”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“The world was full of sick fucks, and I’m to blame for figuring out a way to monetize them? Please. This was easy cash, and it’s nice to get something easily for once in my life.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Well, whose fault was it that your dad hired undocumented workers and then treated them like shit?”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Gorgeous and philanthropic. A devoted wife. An exemplary mother. The kind of woman who could be featured in one of those magazine articles about Women Who Did It All. She’d have been a Stepford Wife, if they weren’t fucking robots.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“great that my mom threw awareness parties about global warming and Dad made donations to countless charities in my name for every birthday or special occasion, but they drove a Range Rover for fuck’s sake.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“You just don’t look like an Evans, that’s all.” Are we still living in the Dark Ages? Who the hell says shit like that? I took a deep breath.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“Anyway, the cops should be here soon. I really suggest you take a good look at yourself and think about how you could turn your life around.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“I mean, it’s just my entire goddamned life that’s riding on your inability to look through a file.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl

“I really can’t afford any more rent than this, please. You have to help me out. He totally played his poor-little-immigrant card, and I bought it all up. I knew what it was like to depend on the charity of others.”
― Amanda Jayatissa, My Sweet Girl