Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

Libraries are the pride of the city.