272 Quotes by Lisa See

Women live quietly," I said. "However angry or broken a woman might get, she does not think about beating someone, does she?

They did this to me. They did that to me. A woman who thinks that way will never overcome her anger. You are not being punished for your anger. You're being punished by your anger.

Who can name a death that was not tragic?” the speaker asks. “Is there a way for us to find meaning in the losses we've suffered? Who can say that one soul has a heavier grievance than another? We were all victims. We need to forgive each other.”Remember? Yes. Forgive? No.

It was easier for me to begin picking at Snow Flower's faults than to feel the emotions raging inside of me.

I accepted these limitations, knowing that my worth was based entirely on the child growing inside me.

To protect my heart, this is what I would have to do with Snow Flower. I couldn't let anyone know I was dying from anguish that she no longer loved me.

As A-ma said, every story, every dream, every waking minute of our lives is filled with one fateful coincidence after another.

Parents exist in children,' Grandmother said to bolster my confidence. 'Your mother will always exist in you. She will give you strength wherever you go.

I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds than to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.