China Rich Girlfriend Quotes

People are messy. Life gets messy. Things are not always going to work out perfectly just because you want them to.

I know the average outfit in your wardrobe costs more than a semester of tuition at Princeton, but it makes you look like a community college during summertime: NO CLASS.

What do you mean, 'boundaries?' You came out of my vagina. What kind of boundaries do we have?

I don’t understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It’s not like it’s a kidney!” Colette laughed.

Everyone claims to be a billionaire these days. But you’re not really a billionaire until you spend your billions. —OVERHEARD AT THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

The larger the diamonds, the older the wife, the more the mistress.

Beauty fades, but wit will keep you on the invitation lists to all the most exclusive parties.

Behind every fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Behind every fortune lies a great crime.

Michael, don’t you know by now that my grandmother and Uncle Alfred are the largest private shareholders of Singapore Press Holdings? We’re not going to be in the papers. We’re never going to be in the papers.

I tell you, this is what’s wrong with the world. People lying about everything.

I don’t understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It’s not like it’s a kidney!

now you have the body shape considered ideal to the women you seek to cultivate—delicately emaciated, with just a hint of a well-managed eating disorder.

You’re an economist—don’t you know what HENRY stands for?” I racked my brains, but I still didn’t have a clue. Perrineum finally spat it out: “High Earners, Not Rich Yet.

This little girl needs to be raised properly—by a team of sensible Cantonese nannies, not interfering parents!

St. Germain elderflower liqueur, gin, and white Lillet mixed with grapefruit juice create this classic effervescent aperitif. Chin-chin!

It’s like all my patients these days—I never know whether the kid in my dental chair is homeless or owns Google,” Ray said gruffly.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

The Holy Trinity are Four Seasons for the roast duck, Mandarin Kitchen for the aforementioned lobster noodles, and Royal China for the dim sum.

In large families the whole affair would often involve complicated Excel flow charts,

I hope you told her that the most romantic thing that happened was watching Alistair projectile vomit out the car window after stuffing down too many In-N-Out burgers.

Just you, me, and our chosen family. No one else matters.

Shanghai and Beijing society would come to accept her, especially if she carries a different handbag.

the older she gets, the more she seems to be turning into an obsessive tightwad.

I promise I will never stop sending you letters of love, Astrid. Until my dying day.

*1 Literally translated as “meat bone tea,” this is not the name of a summer event on Fire Island but rather a popular Singaporean soup that consists of melt-in-your-mouth pork ribs simmered for many hours in an intoxicatingly complex broth of herbs and spices.

Kan ni na bu chao chee bye!

Salted dried plums, fervently sucked on by generations of Chinese like martini olives. Supposedly great for combating nausea

Why do all these ABCs talk to you as if they think you are their best friend?

real-world-immersion friends in Compton.

learn to become a scintillating conversationalist. Beauty fades, but wit will keep you on the invitation lists to all the most exclusive parties.

You’re my one and only gaofushuai,”*

I thought that if she had a stable husband by her side, a husband who could help her properly manage her mental health issues, everything would be okay. But things were not okay.

Posturing is posturing. Hong Kongers have just elevated it to an art form,

you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. —DOROTHY PARKER

Coco Chanel said, “Dress impeccably and they notice the woman.

Some people had all the luck, being born into the right family.

Eleanor leaned in closer and lowered her voice. "Aiyah, these people aren't just everyday rich with a few hundred million. They are China rich! We're talking billions and billions.

There is something in the air tonight, Fernando.

It felt like being at a pajama party inside the vault of Harry Winston.

Thomas Struth’s epic images of pharmaceutical plants, Candida Höfer’s riveting studies of municipal libraries in Lower Saxony, or a delightful grouping of rusting water towers by Bernd und Hilla Becher.

Hainanese chicken rice, which could arguably be considered the national dish of Singapore. (And yes, Eleanor is ready for foodie bloggers to start attacking her restaurant choice. She chose Wee Nam Kee specifically because the United Square location is only five minutes from the Bao condo, and parking there is $2.00 after 6:00 p.m. If she took him to Chatterbox, which she personally prefers, parking at Mandarin Hotel would have been a nightmare and she would have had to valet her Jaguar for $15. Which she would RATHER DIE than do.)

In a city where people are almost as obsessed with food as they are with status, perhaps the best-kept secret of the dining scene is that the finest cuisine arguably isn’t found at the Michelin-starred restaurants in five-star hotels but rather at private dining clubs.

I guess you probably won't be drinking the Johnnie Walker Black Label I brought for you," Corinna remarked. "I honor your gesture, but I only drink reverse-osmosis water these days, " Bernard said. "I honor your gesture?" My God, look what happens to Hong Kong men when they move to California, Corinna thought in horror.

the Iron Throne,”*1 Carlton said, cutting her off.

sipping his glass of 2005 Château Pétrus on the rocks,

Puxi is like Pu-York, but Pudong will always be Pu-Jersey,

appetite.” “In retrospect, a six-course tasting menu was probably not the best idea,” Nick mused. Rachel nodded. “Every time the waiter lifted the silver

She then said to Roxanne in a blood-chilling tone, “I never want to see that Bentley again.

Because sometimes I feel like everyone my age is ahead of the game and I’m just totally fucked. I thought I knew what I wanted,

Woke up this morning to the sight of Nick’s cute naked butt silhouetted against a view of the Eiffel Tower and thought I was still dreaming.

don’t you know what HENRY stands for?” I racked my brains, but I still didn’t have a clue. Perrineum finally spat it out: “High Earners, Not Rich Yet.

most disagreeable of all—foodies.

He looks like the love child of Jay Leno and that Hermione girl from the Harry Potter movies, Corinna

Sorry—tried everything I could to stop Mum. Love, Dad.

Ekaterinburg Pork—suckling pig riddled with truffle-infused gold-leaf “bullets” and thrown down a cellar chute before being flame-roasted over Russian coffee grounds.

Hong Kong’s second richest man Ming Ka-Ching,

In the deepest hollows of bark, in the rustling leaves, she could hear them whisper, He did it out of love, he did it out of love.

You're an economist-don't you know what HENRY stands for?" I racked my brains, but still didn't have a clue. Perrineum finally spat it out: "High Earners, Not Rich Yet.

Don’t you think all the sudden hype about kale is getting a bit much? I want to know who’s been doing all the PR for the kale industry—they should really get an award.

When you enter a room, the ladies immediately think, “This woman is either going to steal my husband, my baby, or my yoga mat.

them. The books are to be read in the following order: Snobs

director Alfonso Cuar

No, really, Minty, how much is it?” “Shhh! I’m bidding!” Araminta admonished her husband, resuming her dialogue with the Christie’s associate

I admire you. Everything you do for the people of Hong Kong, your work on behalf of breast cancer awareness…it’s made me become aware of my breasts in a whole new way,

I didn't know what to say. I just stood there and noticed Gordon Ramsay over by the carrot truffle fries and all I could think was, "What is Gordon going to think if I say no?

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. —DOROTHY PARKER

From now on, get used to nude nails or monochromatic tones of beige. For special occasions, Jin Soon’s “Nostalgia” is a shade of pink beige polish that I will allow.

• Vintage Cartier Tank Américaine wristwatch

Bernard has no money. He only gets about ten million a year to live on," Carol confirmed.

Her family are the Medicis of Asia.

It feels like all we've been doing day after day is partying with Shanghai's Gossip Girl crowd.

After this trip, New York is going to seem like a dump. Every place I go to in China seems to be more luxurious than the last.

It's a long story, one that could only happen in China.

You're right, it's all going to be perfection," Kitty said, gazing out the window as the workmen began rehanging The Palace of Eighteen Perfections on her drawing-room wall.

For years she had heard about this place, and at long last she was about to have lunch here.

delicately emaciated,

delicately emaciated, with just a hint of a well-managed eating disorder.

St. Germain elderflower liqueur, gin, and white Lillet mixed with grapefruit juice

The larger the diamonds, the older the wife, the more the mistresses.

if you try to drive in an orderly fashion here and stay in your lane all the time, you’ll just get killed,

Will you promise you’ll never stop sending me love letters?” Charlie kissed her hands and declared, “I promise I will never stop sending you letters of love, Astrid. Until my dying day.

Minutes before, the child’s father, Bernard Tai, had made a frantic 911 call reporting that his daughter, Gisele, had been kidnapped from their home at 11950 Victoria Avenue in Mar Vista.

Now breathe in the air. Can’t you just feel the good chi flowing everywhere?” Nick could only detect a faint scent that reminded him of Febreze, but he nodded along with Rachel and Carlton.

I don't think you truly realize what it means for the gates of Tyersall Park to be closed to you forever." Nick laughed. "Jacqueline, you sound like some character out of a Trollope novel!

I mean, when you’re spending more money on a couture dress than it takes to vaccinate a thousand children against measles or provide clean water to an entire town, that’s just unconscionable.

Yes, but I’m also saving so much money by doing this! This whole development used to be farmland, and now that there are no more farms, I employ all the displaced locals to work on the estate, so it’s really been good for the economy. And think of all the carbon offset points I’m racking up by not having to fly all over the world every weekend trying out new spas,” Colette said earnestly.

Okay then, most important, tell me which genius designed your fabulous dress. It’s Josep Font, isn’t it?” “Oh, this? I bought it today at Zara.” For the rest of her life, Roxanne would never forget the look on Colette’s face.

I will arrange for you to be snapped by paparazzi eating a bowl of wonton noodles at a dai pai dong.* This will do wonders for your image, and I can already picture the headline: “Social Goddess Unafraid to Dine with the Masses.

From Indonesian and Malay mythology, pontianaks are said to be spirits of women who died while giving birth. A pontianak kills her victims by digging into their stomachs with her sharp dirty fingernails and devouring their organs. Yum.

As the last vapors of early-morning mist hovered over the still waters, the only sound to be heard was the discreet splish of the boatman’s single wooden oar as he rowed Rachel and Peik Lin through a secluded inlet of Hangzhou’s West Lake.

thirty-seven feet, almost filling the floor space of two workrooms. At last, the senior specialist could confirm that this was undoubtedly the mythical work described in all the classical Chinese texts he had spent much of his career studying.

How was this possible? And not just one or two friends who knew each other. Perfect strangers were hugging each other and introducing themselves. This was a miracle. My God, if this was what it was like to be a Christian, she wanted in right now!

Rachel, You have been poisoned with a potentially lethal dose of Tarquinomid. Your doctors will be able to reverse the side effects once they know this. If you value your life, you will not mention this incident to anyone. Never set foot in China again. This is your last warning.

Snobs by Julian Fellowes The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee People Like Us by Dominick Dunne The Power of Style by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins (this is out of print; I will lend you my copy) Pride and Avarice by Nicholas Coleridge The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave Freedom by Jonathan Franzen D. V. by Diana Vreeland A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur by Gayatri Devi Jane Austen—complete works beginning with Pride and Prejudice Edith Wharton—The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth (must be read in strict order—you will understand why when you finish the last one) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Anthony Trollope—all the books in the Palliser series, beginning with Can You Forgive Her?

The vast majority of your jewelry is of such a size and flamboyance that it crosses the point of vulgarity and enters into a territory that can only be described as obscene. Don’t you realize that at your age, big gemstones only serve to make you seem older? As they say, “The larger the diamonds, the older the wife, the more the mistresses.

Welcome to Stratosphere. Which church do you normally attend?" Kitty tried to think of all the churches she passed every single day on the way down from her apartment on The Peak, but her mind temporarily went blank. "Er, the Church of Volturi," she blurted out, picturing the church-like space from the Twilight movies where those scary old vampires sat on thrones.

Edith Wharton—The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth (must be read in strict order—you will understand why when you finish the last one) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Anthony Trollope—all the books in the Palliser series, beginning with Can You Forgive Her?

inviting us today, Lady Asprey,” Kitty said sweetly. Helen looked Kitty up and down. “What a lovely little cross that is,” she complimented, before turning to Corinna and saying, sotto voce, “I had one very similar to that, but I think one of the new maids stole it. Those new girls from youknowwhere are just so untrustworthy. My God, I miss my Norma and Natty. You know, I paid them so well that now they’ve abandoned me to start a beach bar in Cebu.

Snobs by Julian Fellowes The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee People Like Us by Dominick Dunne The Power of Style by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins (this is out of print; I will lend you my copy) Pride and Avarice by Nicholas Coleridge The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave Freedom by Jonathan Franzen D. V. by Diana Vreeland A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur by Gayatri Devi Jane Austen—complete works beginning with Pride and Prejudice