Crazy Rich Asians Quotes

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Family Quotes

Sunday lunch gave Malcolm and his wife a chance to inspect their children and grandchildren on a weekly basis, and it was a duty they undertook with utter seriousness. (1.6.6)

Society and Class Quotes

"Aiyah, Nadine, there's a difference between being grand and being discreet," Daisy commented, knowing full well that families like the Leongs and the Youngs guarded their privacy to the point of o...

Appearances Quotes

Everyone knew that Dato' Tai Toh Lui made his first fortune the dirty way by bringing down Loong Ha Bank in the early eighties, but in the two decades since, the efforts of his wife, Datin Carol Ta...

Women and Femininity Quotes

Being twenty-nine, she was by Chinese standards well into old-maid territory, and even though her busybody relatives were perpetually trying to set her up, she had spent the better part of her twen...

Tradition and Customs Quotes

This was the way things had been since their childhood as neighbors growing up on Serangoon Road, mainly because, coming from a Chinese-speaking family, Carol had always felt inferior to Eleanor, w...

Friendship Quotes

"But surely you've heard about this girl? The one from New York," Daisy said in a whisper, relishing that she was the one breaking the news to Eleanor. (1.2.36)

Love Quotes

Eleanor had a long-held theory about men. She truly believed that for most men, all that talk of "being in love" or "finding the right one" was absolute nonsense. Marriage was purely a matter of ti...

Foreignness and "The Other" Quotes

Ormsby was indignant. How dare this Chinese woman with the Thatcheresque perm and preposterous "English" accent speak to him in such a manner? "I'm afraid we simply do not have anything available,"...

Wealth Quotes

"Well, first of all, you must understand that there are two kinds of Chinese. There are the Chinese from Mainland China, who made their fortunes in the past decade […] but then there are the Ove...

Jealousy Quotes

Eddie stared at the mirror in amazement. "Oh, I've seen that before," he said rather unconvincingly as the envy began to coarse through his veins. He felt the sudden urge to shove his friend's bloa...