All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

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

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.