Good Fortune Quotes

“Brendan looked at Jane, Jane looked at Brendan, Elizabeth looked at Darcy, and Darcy stared at the opposite wall, straight at the grease-splattered calendar showing an outdated month.”
― C.K. Chau, Good Fortune

“Those that could usually called someone in the yellow pages; those that couldn't learned to make do with what they had--and what they had were three girls, their wits, and a ladder of questionable age and stability”
― C.K. Chau, Good Fortune

“They left their daughters to grow into their hollowed Chinese, plugging English into whatever sprang a leak, stumbling on the wrong sounds, chasing intelligibility--but as Jade insisted, at least their English was beyond reproach. No trace of an accent, no problem. A hallmark of their success. A hallmark of their loss.”
― C.K. Chau, Good Fortune