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People write to me all the time, and I write back.

Lisa See

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Lisa See
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 18
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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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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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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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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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I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.
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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’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 am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.
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The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
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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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Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love
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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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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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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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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang
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