I was returning with myself whole and unbroken – limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance.
If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?
Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.
How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.
I have a writer’s memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
Memory feeds imagination.
I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
I feel I’ve always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I’m just writing from experience what’s concerned me.
That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.
Libraries are the pride of the city.
You have to be your own person. You can’t let people’s opinions determine how you think about yourself. There’s a difference between identity and self-identity.
It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
It’s both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.