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Adele Lim Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“It was never my job to make you feel like a man. I can't make you something you're not.”
— Rachel Chu, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Emasculation, Sick Burns
“I can't believe this airport has a butterfly garden and a movie theater. JFK is just salmonella and despair.”
— Rachel Chu, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Airport, Butterfly Garden, movie theater, JFK Airport, Salmonella, Despair
“It's about time somebody stood up to Auntie Eleanor. But you, not me, oh God. She can't ever know I was here.”
— Oliver T'sien, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Bravery, Fear
“Let me get this straight. You both went to the same school. Yet someone came back with a degree that's useful, and the other one came back as Asian Ellen.”
— Pete Chiarelli, Adele Lim, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Lesbian, schoolmates, Ellen Degeneres
“[to Rachel] She just think you're some like unrefined banana. Yellow on the outside, and white on the inside.”
— Goh Peik Lin, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Asian banana
“The problem with our marriage isn't my family's money. It's that you're a coward. You gave up on us.”
— Astrid Leong-Teo, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: coward, Divorce, gave up
“God forbid we lose the ancient Chinese tradition of guilting your children.”
— Astrid Leong-Teo, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Guilt-Tripping, Child Raising, Ancient Chinese Tradition
“You nasty. You’re kind of nasty. You got nastier.”
— Goh Peik Lin, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: mean, What To Say To Nasty People
“You can explore hell, you dog turd.”
— Felicity Young-Leong, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Hell, dog turd, Sick Burns
“Look! They are in full bloom!”
— Alexandra "Alix" Young-Cheng, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Flowers, Bloom, Joy
“These pajamas are fancier than any of my real clothes.”
— Rachel Chu, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: fancy, Clothes, real
“I'm so Chinese. I'm an econ professor that's lactose intolerant.”
— Rachel Chu, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Chinese, lactose intolerant, Economics Professor
“Chinese sons think their moms fart Chanel No. 5.”
— Goh Peik Lin, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: Chinese Mothers, Chinese Sons, Fart, Chanel No. 5
“Rachel Chu: Thanks for meeting me here.
[Eleanor eyes the other two women at the mahjong table] Don't worry about them. They're half-deaf and they only speak Hokkien. [Long pause as Eleanor reluctantly settles into her seat] me mahjong would teach me important life skills: Negotiation. Strategy. Cooperation.

Eleanor Young: You asked me here, I assume it's not for a mahjong lesson. [Shows her tiles] Pong. [Snidely remarks] My mother taught me, too.

Rachel Chu: I know Nick told you the truth about my mom, but you didn't like me the second I got here. Why is that?

Eleanor Young: There is a Hokkien phrase 'kaki lang'. It means: our own kind of people, and you're not our own kind.

Rachel Chu: Because I'm not rich? Because I didn't go to a British boarding school, or wasn't born into a wealthy family?

Eleanor Young: You're a foreigner. American - and all Americans think about is their own happiness.

Rachel Chu: Don't you want Nick to be happy?

Eleanor Young: It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about.

Rachel Chu: You don't know me.

Eleanor Young: I know you're not what Nick needs.

Rachel Chu: [pauses] Well he proposed to me yesterday. [pauses] He said he'd walk away from his family and from you for good. [pauses] Don't worry, I turned him down.

Eleanor Young: [sighs] Only a fool folds a winning hand.

Rachel Chu: Mm no. There's no winning. You made sure of that. 'Cause if Nick chose me, he would lose his family. And if he chose his family, he might spend the rest of his life resenting you.

Eleanor Young: [after a long pause] So you chose for him...

Rachel Chu: I'm not leaving because I'm scared, or because I think I'm not enough - because maybe for the first time in my life, I know I am. [Choking back tears] I just love Nick so much, I don't want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: that one day—when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you're playing with your grandkids while the Tan Hua's are blooming, and the birds are chirping - that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody. [Shows her tiles. Gets up. Walks to her mom who then turns around and gives Auntie Eleanor the silent death glare]”
— Rachel Chu, Crazy Rich Asians
Tagged: female rivalry, mahjong, Immigrants, Wealth, Boarding School, Wealthy Family
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