QUOTATIONS: CHINA RICH GIRLFRIEND BY KEVIN KWAN
PROLOGUE
PART ONE
CHAPTER 1 - THE MANDARIN
"Some people had all the luck, being born into the right family." - Valerie page 28
"Trust me, that's the classy way to do it. You want people to speculate. You want to be that unconfirmed report." - Corinna page 29
"The most important thing is to set your limit. What's your top limit?" - Colin page 34
CHAPTER 2 - CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA
"I can't even imagine what my life would be like without my dad." - Samantha page 45
CHAPTER 3 - SCOTT'S ROAD
CHAPTER 4 - RIDOUT ROAD
CHAPTER 5 - TYERSALL PARK
"You are in the middle of this whether you like it or not, because you two have been keeping secrets." - Eleanor page 70
"You have no right to sabotage his wedding." - Astrid page 70
"You are a moron! An absolute moron!" - Eleanor page 72
CHAPTER 6 - MORTON STREET
"You cannot keep ignoring me like this." - Eleanor page 76
"You have no idea what it's like to come from everything and then lost it all." - Jacqueline page 87
"You can act self-righteous in front of me right now, but believe me, when it is all taken away, you won't know what hit you." - Jacqueline page 87
CHAPTER 7 - BELMONT ROAD
"Jewels should be worn and enjoyed, not stared at from behind a glass case." - Mrs. Singh
"At a certain point, you have to let them make their own choices." - Daisy page 96
CHAPTER 8 - DIAMOND BALLROOM, RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL
"You're always dressed to please yourself - that's precisely why you looked great." - Charlie Wu page 105
"I was just hit so hard by her beauty." - Charlie Wu page 107
CHAPTER 9 - THE LOCKE CLUB
"I don't care what the truth is - I'm not here to judge you." - Corinna page 118
"You placed your bet on the wrong house." - Corinna page 120
"What do you really want out of life?" - Corinna page 120
"We will refocus your image. Anyone can be forgiven. Anything can be forgotten." - Corinna page 122
"I am going to change your life." - Corinna page 122
CHAPTER 10 - ARCADIA
"I came here to ask for your forgiveness. I want to give you my blessing." - Eleanor page 130
"Trust me, I know where I'm not wanted, and I will gladly leave." - Eleanor page 130
"You are even prettier than I remember." - Kao Wei page 132
CHAPTER 11 - FOUR SEASONS BILTMORE
"You didn't trust my judgment." - Nick page 136
"How many times can I say I'm sorry?" - Eleanor page 137
"Secrets are what almost ruined my relationship in the first place." - Nick page 139
CHAPTER 12 - ARCADIA
"You could have spared everyone so much heartache." - Astrid page 144
"It wouldn't hurt for you to smile a little too." - Philip page 147
"I was all prepared for them to hate me." - Eleanor page 147
PART TWO
CHAPTER 1 - KO-TUNG CONSULTING GROUP SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
"Beauty fades, but wit will keep you on the invitation lists." - Corinna page 166
CHAPTER 2 - RACHEL AND NICK
"I'm not expecting to bond with them overnight." - Rachel page 171
"All I have been trying to do is be considerate of your feelings." - Gaoliang page 175
"You only see what you want to see." - Shaoyen page 175
CHAPTER 3 - ASTRID
"I am going to vomit with jealousy." - Domiella page 178
"I think you would get much farther if you would give him more of your attention." - Astrid page 182
"You've never understood the feat that normal people have." - Michael page 183
CHAPTER 4 - THE BAOS
"It's a matter of face - no one wants to be the first to show up in case they look too eager, so they try to outdo one another in lateness. The last one to arrive is deemed the most important." - Nick page 190
"Things have a strange way of working out, don't they?" - Nick page 199
CHAPTER 5 - CHARLIE
"I tell you, this is what's wrong with the world. People lying about everything." - Auntie page 206
"When you came back into my life, I realized two things: First, that I never stopped loving you. You were my first love, and I have loved you since the day I met you at Fort Canning Church when we were fifteen. And second, I also realized that, unlike me, you had moved on." - Charlie page 211
CHAPTER 6 - CARLTON AND COLETTE
"You have been broken my heart. And I don't know how it will ever heal." - Shaoyen page 213
"You don't understand? You don't realize how much you have hurt me? How can you be so cruel?" - Shaoyen page 213
"Don't you see that the the more you accept her, the more you stand to lose?" - Shaoyen page 214
"You are killing me from the inside out." - Shaoyen page 216
CHAPTER 7 - NICK AND RACHEL
"They think I'm wasting my life." - Carlton page 228
CHAPTER 8 - COLETTE
CHAPTER 9 - MICHAEL AND ASTRID
"Old people can sense when they are going to die, you know." - Michael page 246
CHAPTER 10 - THE BINGS
"I keep telling you, you cannot change me." - Jack page 261
"Your interest is not my concern." - Jack page 262
CHAPTER 11 - CORINNA AND KITTY
"Without my normal makeup or proper jewelry, I feel like I don't have my armor on." - Kitty Pong page 269
CHAPTER 12 - ASTRID
CHAPTER 13 - SAVE THE SEAMSTRESS FASHION SHOW
"Can't you just accept the fact that she was born with natural beauty?" - Tiffany Yap page 285
CHAPTER 14 - TRENTA
"Time is money." - Carlton page 293
CHAPTER 15 - 29 CLUNY PARK ROAD
"I'm trying to be more like a traditional wife, I'm trying to let him have his way more and to win some battles, some of the time." - Astrid page 310
CHAPTER 16 - PARIS
"He won't admit it but you know it's true love when a dude will go shopping for fifteen hours straight, with a bunch of women and their mothers." - Rachel page 314
CHAPTER 17 - THE MANDARIN ORIENTAL
"Girls can get away with anything, but we guys have to make more of an effort, don't we?" - Richie page 324
CHAPTER 18 - THE SHANGRI-LA
"Be the bigger man and walk away." - Rachel page 341
"You think you know everything, don't you? You come to China for two weeks and you think you're the expert on all of us. Well, you don't know a thing! You have no idea how I really feel. You have no clue how much trouble you've caused me, caused my family!" - Carlton page 341
"Do you know how lucky you are to have someone like her looking out for you? No, you don't. You take everyone for granted and only love the feeling sorry for yourself." - Colette page 342
PART THREE
CHAPTER 1 - SHEK-O
"I never imagined how disrespectful it was." - Kitty Pong page 351
CHAPTER 2 - CHANI AIRPORT
"I think kids need a great deal of discipline, and they need to be trained to function at their highest level." - Michael page 360
"Are you actually trying to make me the bad person here?" - Astrid page 362
CHAPTER 3 - JINXIAN LU
"I don't know what I want." - carlton page 367
"Because sometimes I feel like everyone mu age is ahead of the game and I'm just totally fucked." - Carlton page 367
"Getting to spend all this time with you is already far more than I could have ever hoped for." - Rachel page 368
CHAPTER 4 - RIVERSIDE VICTORY TOWERS
"What really surprises me is the way you keep disappointing me over and over again." - Jack Bing page 371
"I have so many goals, so many things I want to accomplish before I become anyone's wife." - Colette page 372
"Sometimes I wonder if I even need to get married at all - it's not like I need a man to look after me!" - Colette page 372
"You are not my chess piece! You are m prized possession. And I want to see that you are treated like a queen and married off to the best possible man in the whole world." - Jack page 373
"You've given me a great life and I intend to live it!" - Colette page 374
CHAPTER 5 - PULAU CLUB
"I'm a public servant - people can print any sort of nonsense they want about me." - Harry page 377
CHAPTER 6 - IMPERIAL TREASURE RESTAURANT
"I'm very sorry for disappointing you, for always disappointing you." - Carlton page 386
"So it's all my fault then? You are too blind to see it, but your own actions are to be blamed!" - Shaoyen page 389
"I'm out of my mind because of you!" - Shaoyen page 390
CHAPTER 7 - THE WEST LAKE
CHAPTER 8 - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CHINA
"Everyone's body reacts differently." - Dr. Jacobson page 403
CHAPTER 9 - RIDOUT ROAD
"You know, the husband is the one that's supposed to leave." - Charlie page 411
"You are the one person who truly understands me." - Astrid page 411
"At least they make each other happy. That's the only thing that matters." - Charlie page 412
CHAPTER 10 - QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL
"I will never forgive myself, and it will haunt me for the rest of my life. But I'm trying to take responsibility for what I've done bad. I can't change the past, but I'm trying to change myself." - Carlton page 421
CHAPTER 11 - BUKIT BROWN CEMETERY
"What she truly wanted, what she had always wanted but failed to realize until this moment, was someone who loved her just the way she was. Someone like Charlie. Oh, Charlie. In another lifetime, they could have been happy together. If only she hadn't broken his heart the first time. If only she had been stronger and stood up to her parents the first time. If only he wasn't married with two beautiful kids of his own. If only." - Astrid page 429
CHAPTER 12 - MAR VISTA
"Nothing I ever did was right." - Kitty page 436
"I have no say in any of this, because apparently I'm too stupid to understand anything." - Kitty page 437
CHAPTER 13 - TRIUMPH TOWERS
"I wouldn't dream of trying to change her." - Nick page 443
CHAPTER 14 - CENTRAL POLICE STATION
"No good deed goes unpunished." - Roxanne page 450
CHAPTER 15 - RIDOUT ROAD
"He has looked down on me from the very beginning, and he will never stop." - Michael page 458
"You don't respect me and more importantly, you don't trust me. You've never trusted me!" - Astrid page 460
CHAPTER 16 - 188 TAIYUAN ROAD
"I don't think you know the pressures I've had to face in my life. I know how fortunate I am, believe me I do, but with this fortune has come tremendous burdens." - Colette page 466
"Nothing I can say will make him stop feeling the way he wants to feel. You need to give him time to heal, and he needs to figure out for himself what he wants." - Rachel page 468
"People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to." - Rachel page 468
"All the money in the world is never going to buy you my style or my taste because you'll always be common." - Colette page 470
"You don't live in the real world, you never have, so I'm not even going to try arguing with you - it's way below my pay grade to bother." - Rachel page 470
CHAPTER 17 - NEWSPAPERS AROUND THE WORLD
"Well, I hope you won't come to regret your actions." - Corinna page 478
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