"Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog."

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Source : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

Jenny Han

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“I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a childâ€™s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatever situation, the courage to test the unknown, an instruction that was thematically in opposition to my motherâ€™s.”
“I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.”
“We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.”
“And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.”
“When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.”
“Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial killer. They offered me the part and I was like, "I'm just curious why you thought I would be perfect for this role," and the director (Karen Lam) said, "You have this look that, when you're smiling, you're really sweet, but when you're not smiling, you look like you could kill somebody."”
“Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.”
“I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.”

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