William Andrews > Quotes

“It is your fear that will prevent you from becoming who you are meant to be.”
― William Andrews, Daughters of the Dragon

“That blossom started as a seed,” she continues. “It was buried deep in the cold, dark ground. One day when the soil was warm and moist, the little seed split apart and began to climb to a world it could not see. Imagine the courage it had! It did not know what it would find when it broke through the surface. The scorching sun? The gardener’s blade? The crushing hoof of a cow? But the seed courageously pushed on so that one day it could become a beautiful flower.”
― William Andrews, Daughters of the Dragon

“People are prejudiced because they do not know we are all small parts of the same spirit. The spirit is in everyone and in all things--the mountains, the sea, the birds and the fish. It does not matter where someone was born or what they look like or what language they speak. They are us and we are them.”
― William Andrews, The Spirit of the Dragon

“They must often change, who would be constant in wisdom.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“If we stand fast, no matter how hard the wind blows, it cannot penetrate our soul.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“Today the goal is to control markets. It’s directed by corporations and driven by greed.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“Do as all people must do. Do your best.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“No one is a failure who has done their best.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“was time to end China’s authority over our country and stand as an independent and free nation.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“Someday, child, you will fall into a book and have to live the rest of your life among the pages.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“Mother used to say that dreams are who you are when you’re too tired to be yourself.”
― William Andrews, Daughters of the Dragon

“You say that the rest of the world will let us be. Well, they will not let us be. They are circling over us like buzzards over a dead cow.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“Love is a commitment you make every day for the rest of your life,”
― William Andrews, The Spirit of the Dragon

“Our greatest challenge has always been coming together as one nation.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“my birth parents were just my gene donors. My real parents were the ones who raised me, the ones who were there when I needed them, the ones who actually wanted me.”
― William Andrews, Daughters of the Dragon

“I am not always sure of myself. Sometimes, I get afraid.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

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― William Andrews, Daughters of the Dragon

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― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“The thing that curses us is ourselves.”
― William Andrews, The Spirit of the Dragon

“and his heart broke more every day as she drifted away.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“I looked up to my father the way you look at a hawk high above and wonder what it’s like to fly.”
― William Andrews, Daughters of the Dragon

“She is the axis mundi. She is the mountains and the sea and the great cities. She is the Han River. She is both the tiger and the crane. She is the then, she is the now, and she is what will be. She is one, and she is all.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen

“True love, Suk-bo, is not conditional. It is much deeper. It comes when the passion ends. Then it becomes a commitment you make every day for the rest of your life.”
― William Andrews, The Spirit of the Dragon

“everyone is more than what they appear to be on the surface.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen