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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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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
Lisa See
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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions.
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I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Lisa See -
Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
Lisa See -
I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
Lisa See -
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
Lisa See
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And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.
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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 one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart 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.
Lisa See -
Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
Lisa See -
My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.
Lisa See -
My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.
Lisa See
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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
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But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that.
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You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.
Lisa See -
Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
Lisa See -
Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
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I write what I'm interested in.
Lisa See
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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 the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.
Lisa See -
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.
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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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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 many words out of one character.
Lisa See