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  • born 1955
  • 77 quotes

Lisa See, a writer (born 1955), is quoted 77 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Heart, Thinking, People and Writing.

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I write a thousand words a day.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

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

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

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

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

A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love

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.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

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.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

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.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

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.

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

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.

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.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

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.

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

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.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

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