“I saw that deep-heart love meant loving someone in spite of and because of his limitations.” — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel… — 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 Copy Share Image
Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into… — Lisa See 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 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 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
“Although I can’t possibly have a single memory of this place. Then, from deep within me, a profound sense of love radiating… — Lisa See 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 Copy Share Image
“I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up… — Lisa See 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 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
a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know,… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“I imagined my first night alone in bed with my stranger. I conjured our future years together unhampered by worries about money… — Lisa See 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 vat of… — Lisa See 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 doors shut,… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a… — Lisa See 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 too, because… — 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 fragrance. The… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“...maybe writing doesn't require sacrifice. Maybe it's a gift to experience emotions through our brushes, ink, and paper. I wrote out sorrow, fear, and… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“You can always count on people to crowded your party when you’re in glory but you should never dream of people sending you charcoal… — Lisa See 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 - where… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“So many mistakes. So many errors. So much tragedy as a result. In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
