Tiger Daughter Quotes

“It's aiming for the peaks,' I tell him, 'and swimming through the troughs so that there are moments where you can just float under the sun and see how far you've come.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“I'm good enough to at least try. I haven't given up on trying yet. If they laugh at me, and it ends in nothing? I will try something else. I will never stop trying.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“If I was a boy, life would be different. Life would undoubtedly be better. The universe would be in perfect balance. I wouldn't be a walking daily reminder of something missing, some king of lack.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“I never forget the remainder. The remainder is the most important part, Henry Xiao, because the whole wouldn't be whole again without it!”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“is a blur of chopping, stirring, ladling and straining, her spatula repeatedly striking the surface of the smoking wok like the hooves of a mythical beast striking an iron roadway. She finally turns off the exhaust fan over”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“...and you're not taking food out of your mouth to put into his! He's not one of our people.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“Action, consequence”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“Action, consequence.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter

“What is spoken of outside is not welcome inside, and vice versa. There are two spheres that must never meet, orbiting politely at a distance. With me in the middle, caught in the heavy gravity, slowly tearing apart.”
― Rebecca Lim, Tiger Daughter