Denise

“Yet I still clung to a shred of my past, as a flowering peach blossom tree yearning for its fallen bloom.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

“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

“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