I did not lose myself all at once.

People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.