If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

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

When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?