“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Sometimes I wonder what losing my mother would have been like if I’d spent just a few more years with her, or if I’d known her for a few less.”
― Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
― Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you.”
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“And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose”
― The Joy Luck Club
-Rose”
― The Joy Luck Club
“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”
― The Joy Luck Club
― The Joy Luck Club
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