“If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?”
― The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
― The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
“It’s still hard to live in a foreign country with unfamiliar people, even when you’re with the person you love. I don’t have any roots or history of my own here. A person needs their history around them to remember who they were and to remind them of where they’re going. I’m worried about leaving my history and memories behind me.”
― Living in Water
― Living in Water
“I rest in ease, knowing there are others out there, whispering themselves to sleep, just like me.”
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“To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.”
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“Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached to her family," which was condemned as a "bourgeois habit," and had to see less and less of her own mother.”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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