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" Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix. "

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" There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice. "

" Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower. "

" Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous. "

" My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. "

" Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna. "

" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "

" Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting. "

" Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. "

" If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved. "

" Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other. "

" Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you. "

" The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial. "

" Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page. "

" Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making. "

" LaCroix sparkling water is absolutely delicious. "

" There's a really generous readership with YA. "

" Have passion, yes, but acknowledge that side projects are still work. They shake things up, just like switching up your workout helps you stay one step ahead of your torpid metabolism. They scramble the synapses. "

" I would never give up 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' and 'Game of Thrones.' I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious programs. "

" When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow. "

" In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake. "

" I love my mother a not-normal amount. "

" I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you. "

" Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber's lyrics are insipid - worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he's lousy at skateboarding. But what does any of this actually matter? In case you missed it, Bieber won. "

" Never post boring back-to-back selfies. "

" I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.' "

" I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you. "

" Never post anything personal to your Facebook wall. Or anyone else's, for that matter. Only snitches and teachers look at Facebook. "

" Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down. "

" I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled. "

" The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings. "