Quotes from Lisa See

The river passes through our mountains, changing its name to Mekong where China, Laos, and Burma meet, before flowing through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and eventually to the South China Sea. "Yes! It is called the Danube of the East.

She should be good, not complain, learn through her eyes and ears, and make her mother proud.

La dicha es un regalo que disfrutamos con cautela ante la certeza de que la tragedia se esconde a la vuelta de la esquina.

Tuhan memang menciptakan perempuan, namun Dia lupa menciptakan kebahagiaan.

Afterward we recited the entire poem together. The bed is lit by moonlight I think it is the light of an early winter morning Looking up, I enjoy the full moon in the night sky Bending over, I miss my hometown We all know that poem is about a scholor who is traveling and missing his home, but on that night and forever after I believed it was about us. Snow Flower was my home and I was hers.

The memories of the agony you felt during your footbinding will never leave completely. There will be days from now until you die when the anguish will visit—if you've stood too long or walked too far, if the weather is about to change, if you don't take proper care of your feet.

Waves of heat shimmy off the tarmac, and the air is stiflingly hot, with humidity that's even worse

I thought I could use idealism to solve my inner conflicts, but in healing my inner conflicts I destroyed my idealism.

If you are afraid for your life, you don't think about others. You think only about the people you love, and even that may not be enough.

How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will. I remember clearly

Baba was a worrier—typical for someone born in the year of the rabbit.

To make an ox or water buffalo work so hard, it needs to be blinded and uninformed. That's what the government is doing to the masses now.

Finally, the nima returns to our plane. Wrong cannot be hidden. An outside spirit is insulted because Deh-ja made a mistake in one of her ancestor offerings.

You stole my placenta?

La felicità nasce dalla sofferenza, è questo che ho intuito.

All women on earth-and men too, for that matter-hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, and gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

When there is pain, the body has no freedom of movement. Without pain, the body is free.

Do-saeng finally joined the conversation. Not many men can do without a wife, while all women can do without a husband.

Non vi è ferita più profonda o dolorosa di quella inferta da coloro che sostengono di amarti di più.

happy, she could change ice crystals into flowers. When she was sad or angry—as she was now—she could turn dark clouds into swarms of biting insects.

Grace put her purse on the floor. "My mother says you must never do that," Ruby chastised. "Mine too," I agreed. "Do you want all your money to run out of your purse?

It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distantly separated people together, that all is settled before birth, and no matter how much we wander from our paths, no matter how our fortunes change—for good or bad—all we can do is accomplish the decree of fate. This, in the end, is our blessing and our heartbreak. Regrets

Si a los tres años eres feliz, serás feliz a los ochenta.»

The sea, it is said, is like a mother. The salt water, the pulse and surges of the current, the magnified beat of your heart, and the muffled sounds reverberating through the water together recall the womb.