You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei

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

I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."

I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.