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Top 10 Alice Pung Quotes (2024 Update)

Alice Pung Quote: “Life is nothing but high school.” – Kurt Vonnegut.”

1. “Life is nothing but high school.” – Kurt Vonnegut.”

Alice Pung Quote: “I’d seen how the top-performing girls at Laurinda were cultivated like hothouse strawberries – bright and lush. Out in the real world, they would bruise. I wanted to see how the Cabinet would cope in two years’ time, when they would be in the same classes as my most driven and hard-working Christ Our Saviour friends, and the most tenacious and gifted public school students, the hardy banksias and olive trees and root vegetables that would last all through winter.”

2. “I’d seen how the top-performing girls at Laurinda were cultivated like hothouse strawberries – bright and lush. Out in the real world, they would bruise. I wanted to see how the Cabinet would cope in two years’ time, when they would be in the same classes as my most driven and hard-working Christ Our Saviour friends, and the most tenacious and gifted public school students, the hardy banksias and olive trees and root vegetables that would last all through winter.”

Alice Pung Quote: “I never tell them about our lives. You know why? It is not because I am ashamed. It is because some things are just good, too good to be judged.”

3. “I never tell them about our lives. You know why? It is not because I am ashamed. It is because some things are just good, too good to be judged.”

Alice Pung Quote: “To be part of the Cabinet, I’d had to keep my true self apart. and there’s only so much of yourself you can hide, Linh, before you start to fall apart.”

4. “To be part of the Cabinet, I’d had to keep my true self apart. and there’s only so much of yourself you can hide, Linh, before you start to fall apart.”

Alice Pung Quote: “In their white-daisy bouquet of slim pickings, they cast out all the yellow chrysanthemums, and anything brown was considered wilted.”

5. “In their white-daisy bouquet of slim pickings, they cast out all the yellow chrysanthemums, and anything brown was considered wilted.”

Alice Pung Quote: “I’d never been much good at finding openings in conversations here. I treated them like stuffing envelopes- the moment a gap appeared, I was worried I’d insert the wrong thing and it would sealed and delivered. Or I’d insert something too large to fit through the post, and it would not be accepted.”

6. “I’d never been much good at finding openings in conversations here. I treated them like stuffing envelopes- the moment a gap appeared, I was worried I’d insert the wrong thing and it would sealed and delivered. Or I’d insert something too large to fit through the post, and it would not be accepted.”

Alice Pung Quote: “And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was the self that was visible, the self that could be shown to other people.”

7. “And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was the self that was visible, the self that could be shown to other people.”

Alice Pung Quote: “All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that if they were ever to be played in front of an audience of people we know and love, would cause us to shrivel in shame.”

8. “All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that if they were ever to be played in front of an audience of people we know and love, would cause us to shrivel in shame.”

Alice Pung Quote: “As a general rule, teenage girls never, ever see solitude as a choice.”

9. “As a general rule, teenage girls never, ever see solitude as a choice.”

Alice Pung Quote: “I was crying out of frustration, frustration that I could not be left alone, that no girl at this school could possibly be allowed some space to breathe and sort out her own thoughts.”

10. “I was crying out of frustration, frustration that I could not be left alone, that no girl at this school could possibly be allowed some space to breathe and sort out her own thoughts.”

Alice Pung Quote: “People, even well-intentioned people, were always trying to take away our quiet little successes and joys and replace them with big, overarching fears.”

11. “People, even well-intentioned people, were always trying to take away our quiet little successes and joys and replace them with big, overarching fears.”

Alice Pung Quote: “Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started.”

12. “Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started.”

Alice Pung Quote: “They couldn’t see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn’t understand that once the baby came, I would be gone.”

13. “They couldn’t see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn’t understand that once the baby came, I would be gone.”

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