Denise

“It takes a lifetime to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour,” she recites. “Life without a friend is life without sun. Life without a friend is death.”
― Lisa See, Lady Tan's Circle of Women

“Fall in love? It's a force of nature, boy. Sometimes it swells like a tsunami, and drowns you. Sometimes it grows as slow as a tree, and blossoms into a flower. Sometimes it strikes like lightning. Which is it?”
― Salinee Goldenberg, The Last Phi Hunter

“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer - suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother - die suffering. Go-saeng - the word made her sick. Did mothers suffer by not telling their sons that suffering would come?”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko