Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you ….

What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the f….

I've always been a magnet for guilt..

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rej….

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul..

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?.

Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fa….

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever..

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese..

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer ….

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction..

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused..

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice..

A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and st….

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow..

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling..

When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it..

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you mus….

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with..

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 hid….