Memory feeds imagination.

Dementia was like a truth serum.

Your only shame is to have shame.

With hope, a mind is always free.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

I did not lose myself all at once.

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

Libraries are the pride of the city.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

God, life changes faster than you think.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Fate changes when you change your clothes.

Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

I have always known a thing before it happens.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Too many good things all seem the same after a while.

In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.

I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.

I felt ashamed of being different and ashamed of feeling that way.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

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