Lisa See - Dreams of Joy (2011)

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

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

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

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

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

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