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27 quotes
American novelist
“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”
"What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded."
on Love
"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."
on Identity
"But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light."
on Life
"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."
on Hope
"Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?"
"Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears."
"Forever did not mean what it once had. Forever was what changed inevitably over time."
on Time
"You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know."
on Philosophy
"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."
on Success
"When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots."
on Relationships
"When the anesthesia of love wears off,you suffer the pain of consequence."
"You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light."
"too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow."
on Happiness
"Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention."
"It's a luxury being a writer because all you ever think about is life."
on Writing
"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
on Inspirational
"Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening."
on Humor
"A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin."
on Family
"If you can't change your fate change your attitude."
"Dementia was like a truth serum."
on Truth
