The Chinese Groove Quotes

“It’s no use beating the family drum. Sometimes families break apart.”
― Kathryn Ma, The Chinese Groove

“We both knew we were telling each other tales. My mother fondly called them your father's little stories, not the ancient folktales and legends she knew by heart, but myths-of-the-moment that Father conjured strictly for her delight. She would beg him for one when her pain was just so.”
― Kathryn Ma, The Chinese Groove

“Not every detail belongs in every story, as you and I well know.”
― Kathryn Ma, The Chinese Groove

“It was classic auntie behavior: the pleasurable pain of vicarious distress. Who doesn't thrill to a crisis, especially when the trouble has fallen on somebody else?”
― Kathryn Ma, The Chinese Groove

“Never trust a story with a happy ending.”
― Kathryn Ma, The Chinese Groove

“wending”
― Kathryn Ma, The Chinese Groove