You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

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.

I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.