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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.
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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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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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I write a thousand words a day.
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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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People write to me all the time, and I write back.
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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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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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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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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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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
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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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But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.
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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.
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i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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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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