Lisa See Short Quotes

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A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.

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Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

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Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

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In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts, or emotions

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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

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You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

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Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

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Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

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When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love

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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 who was my husband.

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Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

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We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

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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 a special opportunity.

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Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

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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 talent she keeps inside.

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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, misfortune can fall from above.

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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 sadness, rupture, and brutality.

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He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

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