Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

Your only shame is to have shame.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei