I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these two things do not mix?
“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky”
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“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Seven Gothic Tales
― Seven Gothic Tales
“But I was born today, and isn't it funny how no ones gets to remember that moment and who was there? It's all what's told to you. You're here now. You are a mother to me.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”
― 1984
― 1984
“With all due respect to poetic concision, the male of the species was endowed with a pair when a single might have sufficed.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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