My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

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

We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.

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

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.