Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

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

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.