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

Lisa See

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.
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Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
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My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.
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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions
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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
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