But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.