I have always known a thing before it happens.

She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.