Lisa See Quotes
Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.
Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.
People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?
Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.
I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.
I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.
Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
