You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know..

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning,….

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing mother that we al….

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the mus….

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying.

She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one….

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye..

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood..

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds..

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand….

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 f….

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until….

I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like….

Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitti….

A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin..

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybod….

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along..

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 sel….

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path..

If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets..