“When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it.” — Lisa See Advantage Copy Share Image
“My home is here with this family I've built from scraps of tragedy.” — Lisa See Family 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
In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. — Lisa See Cruelest Copy Share Image
Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest. — Lisa See Communes 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 Art love 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
All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know,… — Lisa See Brutality Copy Share Image
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved. — Lisa See Death 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 Misfortune Copy Share Image
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole… — Lisa See Adolescence 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
“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
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 Art love Copy Share Image
“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait… — Lisa See Children 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
“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
“It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distantly separated people together, that… — Lisa See Destiny Copy Share Image
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate… — Lisa See Being Copy Share Image
“What's your first impression of a new place? Is it the first meal you eat? Your first ice cream cone? The first… — Lisa See First impression Copy Share Image
i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay — Lisa See Being married Copy Share Image
“Blessings and worry, happiness and fear – this is a mother’s love.” — Lisa See Blessings Copy Share Image
“You’ll never get a marriage proposal if you have to rely on your needlework.” — Lisa See Marriage Copy Share Image
A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest. — Lisa See Aching Copy Share Image
Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary. — Lisa See Extraordinary Copy Share Image
We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical &… — Lisa See Accepting Copy Share Image
I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've… — Lisa See Business 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
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
“We may look and act modern in many ways, but we can’t escape what we are... obedient chinese daughters.” — Lisa See Daughters 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 Appreciate 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
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.” — Lisa See Autumn Copy Share Image
I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able… — Lisa See Able Copy Share Image
