Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

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.

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

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.