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“A dragon doesn’t surrender. A dragon fights fate. This is not some loud, roaring feeling. It feels more like someone blew on an ember and found a slight orange glow.” (Shanghai Girls Quotes)
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“Don’t ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That’s the meaning of fate.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“It’s hard for a snake to go back to Hell once its had a taste of Heaven.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“May and I are sisters. We’ll always fight, but we’ll always make up as well. That’s what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we’ve had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time. ”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“Maybe that’s what we’re all like with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they’re extraordinary.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“Maybe we’re all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they’re extraordinary.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“My home is here with this family I’ve built from scraps of tragedy.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“Sometimes you think you have all of tomorrow ahead of you,’ Mama often said. ‘When the sun is shining, think of the time it won’t be, because even when you’re sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that’s been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her. The last thing May says to me is ‘When our hair is white, we’ll still have our sister love.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“We’re told that men are strong and brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat, and bear physical and mental agony much better than men.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“When the sun is shining, think of the time it won’t be, because even when you’re sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“When you don’t have much, having less isn’t so bad.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
“When you’re held underwater, you think only of air.”
Lisa See
Shanghai Girls
