You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.