Julie Otsuka quotes

“Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.”
-- Julie Otsuka

Source : Julie Otsuka (2007). “When the Emperor Was Divine”, p.54, Anchor

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“And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.”
-- Julie Otsuka

Source : FaceBook post by Julie Otsuka from Dec 18, 2016

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“We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.”
-- Julie Otsuka

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“Women are weak, but mothers are strong.”
-- Julie Otsuka

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“We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not thawed. I fear my soul has died. We stopped writing home to our mothers. We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.?”
-- Julie Otsuka

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“If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.”

Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

“The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.”

Source : "The New Physics". Book edited by Paul Davies, 1992.

“Does my hair look alright? Of course, it looks alright. Why am I asking you for? ...We get lunch right? ...Can we get this thing going? I gotta meet my girlfriend for a martini.”

“Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.”

“I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way”

Source : Adrian Mitchell (1997). “Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-1984”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

“... The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.”

“One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".”

“The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.”

“First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.”