Lisa See Quotes

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• When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging…
• 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…
• People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional…
• 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.
• And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
• 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…
• I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
• I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
• 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…
• 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…
• I write a thousand words a day.
• 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…
• Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying…
• Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
• Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.
• People write to me all the time, and I write back.
• A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.
• You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
• It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all…
• 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…

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