People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

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

But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.