Jean

“If you’re negative, your whole body suffers. A negative person falls apart, because the food that is supplied with optimism is not present.” An optimist does not deny darkness. Optimists like Charlie refuse to sink into it, to hide in it, to surrender to darkness.”
― David von Drehle, The Book of Charlie

“You—” I pointed at her “—are lowborn. I’m a lady. These facts are as solid as the ground we stand on.”
― Jane Yang, The Lotus Shoes

“It’s natural to look at a goal and think… it might not be attainable. The trick is to ignore the “not.” Charlie had a gift for ignoring.”
― David von Drehle, The Book of Charlie

“But she was my superior in character. I’d been given every advantage, but at the first sign of adversity, I’d given up, while Little Flower had fought against ill fortune, hardships, injury, heartaches, crushed dreams and impossible odds.”
― Jane Yang, The Lotus Shoes