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

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

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

When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.