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

...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

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

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 can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.