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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.
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People write to me all the time, and I write back.
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I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
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When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love
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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.
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
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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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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.
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I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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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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And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
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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.
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Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.
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In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.
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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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I write a thousand words a day.
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While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.
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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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