But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a sp…

- Yiyun Li

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

- Yiyun Li

Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.

- Yiyun Li

I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.

- Yiyun Li

Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the…

- Yiyun Li

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that someti…

- Yiyun Li

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

- Yiyun Li

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

- Yiyun Li

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

- Yiyun Li