The life we receive is not always what we choose.

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

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