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Top 25 C Pam Zhang Quotes (2026 Update)

C Pam Zhang Quote: “What people see shapes how they treat you.”

1. “What people see shapes how they treat you.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “Too often truth ain’t in what’s right, Lucy girl – sometimes it’s in who speaks it. Or writes it.”

2. “Too often truth ain’t in what’s right, Lucy girl – sometimes it’s in who speaks it. Or writes it.”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “What real riches are? I could spend this gold tomorrow and it would belong to someone else. No. I want us rich in choices, that’s something noone can take.”

3. “What real riches are? I could spend this gold tomorrow and it would belong to someone else. No. I want us rich in choices, that’s something noone can take.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “That feeling of knowing someone will call your name – that’s the feeling I got when your ma met my eyes. I knew I was almost home.”

4. “That feeling of knowing someone will call your name – that’s the feeling I got when your ma met my eyes. I knew I was almost home.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “And wasn’t that the real reason for traveling, a reason bigger than poorness and desperation and greed and fury – didn’t they know, low in their bones, that as long as they moved and the land unfurled, that as long as they searched, they would forever be searchers and never quite lost?”

5. “And wasn’t that the real reason for traveling, a reason bigger than poorness and desperation and greed and fury – didn’t they know, low in their bones, that as long as they moved and the land unfurled, that as long as they searched, they would forever be searchers and never quite lost?”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “I don’t see how you can claim to own a place and treat it so poor, there are methods of getting what you want without tearing at the land like a pack of wild dogs.”

6. “I don’t see how you can claim to own a place and treat it so poor, there are methods of getting what you want without tearing at the land like a pack of wild dogs.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “Young enough to think desire alone shapes the world.”

7. “Young enough to think desire alone shapes the world.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “You should always ask why a person is telling you their story.”

8. “You should always ask why a person is telling you their story.”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “Burial is just another recipe.”

9. “Burial is just another recipe.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “In Lucy’s fondest dream, the one she doesn’t want to wake from, she braves no dragons and tigers. Finds no gold. She sees wonders from a distance, her face unnoticed in the crowd. When she walks down the long street that leads her home, no one pays her any mind at.”

10. “In Lucy’s fondest dream, the one she doesn’t want to wake from, she braves no dragons and tigers. Finds no gold. She sees wonders from a distance, her face unnoticed in the crowd. When she walks down the long street that leads her home, no one pays her any mind at.”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “When you were born, Lucy girl, you were like an anchor dropping on the ship your ma used to tell about: holding us down, holding us together. Holding us to this land. For that, I was always grateful.”

11. “When you were born, Lucy girl, you were like an anchor dropping on the ship your ma used to tell about: holding us down, holding us together. Holding us to this land. For that, I was always grateful.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “What makes a ghost a ghost? Can a person be haunted by herself?”

12. “What makes a ghost a ghost? Can a person be haunted by herself?”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars.”

13. “Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars.”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “Can a lake, without proper burial, become a ghost? Can a place remember, and hurt, and rage against what hurt it?”

14. “Can a lake, without proper burial, become a ghost? Can a place remember, and hurt, and rage against what hurt it?”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “My life was dredge, fry, plate. My life was wait, wait, wait.”

15. “My life was dredge, fry, plate. My life was wait, wait, wait.”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “I can see now that I was hungry for love that summer. For something to love: a bite, a dream, a person, a meal, a field, a piece of a world worth believing in.”

16. “I can see now that I was hungry for love that summer. For something to love: a bite, a dream, a person, a meal, a field, a piece of a world worth believing in.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “Anyone who has fed the rich knows that, past a certain price, it is not a matter of taste, nor hunger.”

17. “Anyone who has fed the rich knows that, past a certain price, it is not a matter of taste, nor hunger.”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “You believe in a country that does not exist as you imagine it, in a code of morality as fanciful as any creation myth. What do you call that if not blind faith?”

18. “You believe in a country that does not exist as you imagine it, in a code of morality as fanciful as any creation myth. What do you call that if not blind faith?”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides.”

19. “My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides.”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “Old trees, dying, may burst after fruitless years into sudden blossom, a final exuberance of flower and sugar. Toward sun. At the last, even trees ache in their sap for pleasure.”

20. “Old trees, dying, may burst after fruitless years into sudden blossom, a final exuberance of flower and sugar. Toward sun. At the last, even trees ache in their sap for pleasure.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “I asked her, what kind of god kills the bees and leaves the rapists alive?”

21. “I asked her, what kind of god kills the bees and leaves the rapists alive?”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “What, I ask, is fairness in a world that fears there is never enough, in which one need always scrapes against another? I’m not smart enough to give that answer. I only believe that the tongue, dumb beast, is not selfish in its instinctive cant toward pleasure. The question that follows me through the seasons of my life is what comes after hunger is sated; whether that pleasure is guarded, or shared.”

22. “What, I ask, is fairness in a world that fears there is never enough, in which one need always scrapes against another? I’m not smart enough to give that answer. I only believe that the tongue, dumb beast, is not selfish in its instinctive cant toward pleasure. The question that follows me through the seasons of my life is what comes after hunger is sated; whether that pleasure is guarded, or shared.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “It’s just as hard to miss disaster as it is to bear witness. If you don’t see – you keep imagining.”

23. “It’s just as hard to miss disaster as it is to bear witness. If you don’t see – you keep imagining.”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “I can see now that I was hungry for love that summer. For something to love: a bite, a dream, a person, a meal, a field, a piece of a world worth believing in. Not for me the solace of boeuf bourguignon; not for me red wine and browned butter, that unctuousness proximate to rot or burning that stickied a diner’s tongue. I had lived too long in the low country. I had tasted bitter gray. Only ashes and lost empires in the crust of a kouign amann that would never shatter the same way again.”

24. “I can see now that I was hungry for love that summer. For something to love: a bite, a dream, a person, a meal, a field, a piece of a world worth believing in. Not for me the solace of boeuf bourguignon; not for me red wine and browned butter, that unctuousness proximate to rot or burning that stickied a diner’s tongue. I had lived too long in the low country. I had tasted bitter gray. Only ashes and lost empires in the crust of a kouign amann that would never shatter the same way again.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured.”

25. “What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “This was the summer of my de-extinction, of life streaming back to its source.”

26. “This was the summer of my de-extinction, of life streaming back to its source.”

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C Pam Zhang Quote: “There is time on this greener earth for girls to ripen into themselves; what they’ll do with that is beyond anyone’s knowing, seeing as they are not limited to anger versus dinner, seriousness versus sentiment, survival versus all life’s rampancy. They can choose.”

27. “There is time on this greener earth for girls to ripen into themselves; what they’ll do with that is beyond anyone’s knowing, seeing as they are not limited to anger versus dinner, seriousness versus sentiment, survival versus all life’s rampancy. They can choose.”

— C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang Quote: “Imagine Persephone for the first time in the absolute intoxication of dark, her senses stretching languid, the cave as moist as lover’s breath. The feast, the chair, the plate, the fruit: red. Imagine a story whose moral is mute desire.”

28. “Imagine Persephone for the first time in the absolute intoxication of dark, her senses stretching languid, the cave as moist as lover’s breath. The feast, the chair, the plate, the fruit: red. Imagine a story whose moral is mute desire.”

— C Pam Zhang

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