Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone..

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen.".

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei.

You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meann….

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find hum….

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, becau….

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?.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5.

I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer..

Dementia was like a truth serum..

Libraries are the pride of the city..

With hope, a mind is always free..

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention..

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude..

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just ano….

Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always c….

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazin….

I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the m….

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success..

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, ….