My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more.
Memory, in fact, gives you no choice over which moments you can erase, and it is annoyingly persistent in retaining the most painful ones. It is extraordinarily faithful in recording the most hideous...
Maybe the kind of love that would comfort me did not exist. Perhaps I expected too much of love and no one existed who could ever meet my unceasing and bottomless need for it.
If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also like being told my head was going to be chopped of...
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games......
I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.
I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there was ever any one right answer, yet there were many wrong ones.
I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason. But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daught...
I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place. And hiding in this place, behind my invisible barriers, I...
I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant I would try to respect her opinions more. But listening to Aun...
Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief.
But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.
But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.-Jing-mei
And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody.
Accept love when it is offered, Violet. Return love and not suspicion. Then you'll receive more. - Loyalty Tang
We were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.
Your life is what you see in front of you.-An-mei
With hope, a mind is always free.
While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no , no inside knowing of things. If she had , she would see a tiger lady. And she...