Quotes by Lisa See

Lisa See

a laotong relationship is made by choice…when we first looked in each other’s eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us–like a spark to start a fire or a seed to grow rice. But a single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love–true-heart love–must grow.

Deep Love

Eye

Heart

All women on earth– and men, too for that matter– hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

Disappointment

Dream

Love

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

Age

Feet

Interesting

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

Desire

Girl

Roots

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

Eye

Heart

Thinking

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

American Family

Chinese

Los Angeles

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Bad Qualities

Enough

Quality

I don’t really know anything about the movie business, even though I’ve lived in Los Angeles my whole life – somehow I’ve never bumped into it.

Knows

Los Angeles

Whole Life

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That’s universal in women’s friendships.

Betrayed

Hurt

Thinking

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

Broken

Clay

Flawless

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Age

American Family

Bad Qualities

Believe

Betrayed

Book

Boys

Breathing

Broken

Calling

Children

Chinese

Choices

Clay

Communes

Daughter

Deep Love

Desire

Disappointment

Doors

Doubt

Dream

Enough

Eye

Fall

Feelings

Feet

Fighting

Flawless

Flower

Forgotten

Fun

Garden

Girl

Growing Up

Heart

Hurt

Husband

Interesting

Knows

Lasts

Leader

Longing

Los Angeles

Loss

Love

Love You

Lovely

Lying

Mistake

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Quotes by Lisa See

Lisa See

All women on earth– and men, too for that matter– hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

I don’t really know anything about the movie business, even though I’ve lived in Los Angeles my whole life – somehow I’ve never bumped into it.

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That’s universal in women’s friendships.

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

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