Quotes from Lisa See

leerla, cerré los ojos y pensé: «Qué triste está Hermana

nothing in the world is permanent. The only permanent thing is impermanence.

someone recommended that I watch Somewhere Between, a powerful documentary about teenage adoptees, one of whom goes to China and finds her birth mother.

What can we do? We're only women, she says. But it's because I'm a woman, that I dare to go.

The typhoon that hit us wasn't the worst we'd ever experienced, but we were all so much weaker in our bodies and minds that the impact was just one more remorseless blow.

From the second I woke up, I had seen my family in new ways and they had me filled with strange emotions --melancholy, sadness, jealousy, and a sense of injustice about many things that suddenly seemed unfair.

Let them run while they can.

I accepted these limitations, knowing that my worth was based entirely on the child growing inside me.

Let me see you going but never coming back.

individual family. It showed an infant's face blown up so big it was blurry.

Tea is to heal.

It is always better to let them (shaman and priest) take credit for a good outcome. Do you understand?

What you are doing is an irresponsible act of fate-tempting.

unpack, polish, or sell. There are

Every tree has a soul.

A single moment changes destinies.

It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong.

I'd felt the ruma had magically understood everything that happened, but now I realize his gifts may have less to do with magic than with interpreting the world around him in a magical way.

Once the boat reaches its destination, Young-sook and the other women take a few moments to make offerings of rice and rice wine to the Dragon Sea God and pray for an abundant harvest, a safe return, and peace of mind.

Fate sent you in one direction, Destiny sent me in another.

It's said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one's capacity for great joy.

I now understand that we learned these songs and stories not just to teach us how to behave but because we would be living out variations of them over and over again throughout our lives.

All we can do is take their pain and carry it in our hearts, That's a mother's love... love and pain.

Maybe that's what we're all like with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.