For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.
And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.
When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: ‘You speak,’ he said, ’the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan.
With hope, a mind is always free.
You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.
So much of history is mystery. We don’t know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
Whenever I’m with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.
Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.
Don’t think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then your mind becomes confused.
While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.
You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it – that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.
And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don’t know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.