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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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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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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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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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I write a thousand words a day.
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Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
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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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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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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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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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People write to me all the time, and I write back.
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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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I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.
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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
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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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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
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My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.
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Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
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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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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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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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