I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.