“What better place to look for trash than in America - the land of consumption and waste?” — Lisa See Better place Copy Share Image
“Tea reminds us to slow down and escape the pressures of modern life,” he says” — Lisa See Coffee Copy Share Image
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang — Lisa See Death Copy Share Image
How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard? — Lisa See Creativity Copy Share Image
Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is. — Lisa See Baby Copy Share Image
“Maybe our lives are like gigantic jigsaw puzzles. You find the right piece and suddenly the whole picture has meaning.” — Lisa See Copy Share Image
When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real… — Lisa See Alive Copy Share Image
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“It may be that the numinous spirit of the written word does not perish and so, too, bestows life after death.” — Lisa See Death Copy Share Image
“I have inherited fragrance of classic books. Drilling the wall for light, hair tied to a beam in fear of drowsing, I… — Lisa See Books Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what we're all like with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.” — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake. — Lisa See Decision Copy Share Image
“As I speak, I’m reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come out of the mouth,… — Lisa See Old saying Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control.… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it… — Lisa See Character Copy Share Image
One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“huigan—causes us to turn inward and reflect as the liquor coats our tongues, shimmers down our throats, and then rises again as… — Lisa See Coffee Copy Share Image
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests… — Lisa See Beauty Copy Share Image
“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one and the same. For… — Lisa See Desire Copy Share Image
“Suffering has brought clarity into my life. Maybe the things that have happened to me are punishment for what I did in… — Lisa See Cherry blossom Copy Share Image
“I don't want her to either, which is exactly what I've been saying. Still, there's a part of me that hates that… — Lisa See Children Copy Share Image
“We had a meeting where we were supposed to learn how to respond to jerks who ask things like "When did you… — Lisa See Birth mother Copy Share Image
“I focus my eyes on my jade bracelet. All these years and for all the years after I die, it will remain… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why… — Lisa See Action Copy Share Image
I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“I have a whole life to tell; I have nothing left to lose and few to offend.” — Lisa See Life Copy Share Image
Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest. — Lisa See Communes Copy Share Image
In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles. — Lisa See American family Copy Share Image
“My home is here with this family I've built from scraps of tragedy.” — Lisa See Family Copy Share Image
“You’ll never get a marriage proposal if you have to rely on your needlework.” — Lisa See Marriage Copy Share Image
