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When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.
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.
Lisa See
Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
Lisa See
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.
Lisa See
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.
Lisa See
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.
Lisa See
Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
Lisa See
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
Lisa See
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.
Lisa See
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.
Lisa See
i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay
Lisa See
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.
Lisa See
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
Lisa See
I write a thousand words a day.
Lisa See
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.
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.
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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.
Lisa See
My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
Lisa See
Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
Lisa See
How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
Lisa See
When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love
Lisa See