“When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it.” — Lisa See Wealth Copy Share Image
My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics. — Lisa See Book Copy Share Image
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. — Lisa See Desperate Copy Share Image
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire? — Lisa See Desire Copy Share Image
A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest. — Lisa See Brave Copy Share Image
Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest. — Lisa See Communes Copy Share Image
I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same. — Lisa See Bad qualities Copy Share Image
“the birth of the twins and what happened to them, although traditional, has transformed me as irreversibly as soaking cloth in a… — Lisa See Birth Copy Share Image
“A dragon doesn't surrender. A dragon fights fate. This is not some loud, roaring feeling. It feels more like someone blew on… — Lisa See Dragon Copy Share Image
“One mistake can change the course of your life. You can never return to your original path or go back to the… — Lisa See Change Copy Share Image
“Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.” — Lisa See Flower Copy Share Image
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound… — Lisa See 80s Copy Share Image
“She's grabbed onto old traditions-outdated traditions- in the same way I latch onto them now: as a means of survival, as a… — Lisa See Culture Copy Share Image
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs… — Lisa See Able Copy Share Image
“The river passes through our mountains, changing its name to Mekong where China, Laos, and Burma meet, before flowing through Thailand, Cambodia,… — Lisa See Danube Copy Share Image
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I… — Lisa See Back Copy Share Image
“Anyone who tells you that the Yao people never care for their daughters is lying. We may be worthless. We may be… — Lisa See Children Copy Share Image
I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know… — Lisa See Destiny Copy Share Image
Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding… — Lisa See Am Copy Share Image
For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later… — Lisa See Desire Copy Share Image
“When she reaches the ground, she looks from the old woman to me. A moment of confusion. Then recognition. I know her… — Lisa See Mother Copy Share Image
“Well, Chinese used to be seen as low, right? Working on the railroad, in laundries, and stuff like that. Now they're seen… — Lisa See Stereotype 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 focus my eyes on my jade bracelet. All these years and for all the years after I die, it will remain… — Lisa See Gone forever Copy Share Image
“But I’m not just shocked. I’m also disappointed in May for allowing Z.G. to talk her into this. I’m angry at him… — Lisa See Prostitute Copy Share Image
We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die,… — Lisa See Awful Copy Share Image
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into… — Lisa See Bloody Copy Share Image
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very… — Lisa See Accounts Copy Share Image
Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious… — Lisa See Animals Copy Share Image
“When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into… — Lisa See Love Copy Share Image
“My home is here with this family I've built from scraps of tragedy.” — Lisa See Family 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
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang — Lisa See Death Copy Share Image
