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

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.

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.