Best Lisa See Sayings
- Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions Corrupt
- I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with… Another Way
- In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. Cruelest
- Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. Daughter
- She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it. Forgotten
- All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of… All
- a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a… Choice
- Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times. Better
- You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. Anyone
- Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a… Account
- Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river. Book
- You can't fight your fate...It is predestined. Fate
- When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad. Bad
- 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 husband, and for… Deep
- In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I… Away Even
- I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us… Accept
- There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang Death
- A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have… Art
- I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their… Adult
- Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those… Family