My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

Fate changes when you change your clothes.

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.