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

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

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

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

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