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“A weak man always seeks to hurt those lower than he is” (The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Quotes)
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“Always remember If you don’t love tea, you can’t make good tea.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“I grew up believing that rice was to nourish and that tea was to heal. Now I understand that tea is also to connect and to dream. That seduction is deeper and more profound than could happen with any man.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“If you work hard, you will eat easy. If you work easy, you will eat hard.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“It’s said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one’s capacity for great joy.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“It’s said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one’s capacity for great joy. I see it from the opposite direction. I’m happy, but there’s an empty space inside me that will never stop suffering from the loss of Yan-yeh.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“Man becomes wiser and more mature through life experience. The same can be said of tea.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“Maybe our lives are like gigantic jigsaw puzzles. You find the right piece and suddenly the whole picture has meaning.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“One mistake can change the course of your life. You can never return to your original path or go back to the person you were.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“Opium and heroin had not caused our poverty and hopelessness. Rather, poverty and hopelessness had brought about an unquenchable desire to forget.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“Suffering has brought clarity into my life. Maybe the things that have happened to me are punishment for what I did in a previous life, maybe they were fate or destiny, and maybe they’re all just part of a natural cycle – like the short but spectacular lives of cherry blossoms in spring or leaves falling away in autumn.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“Tea reminds us to slow down and escape the pressures of modern life,” he says”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“To learn a different language is to learn a different way of living.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
“When she reaches the ground, she looks from the old woman to me. A moment of confusion. Then recognition. I know her too, because I’ve seen traces of her in my face in the mirror. My mother. My a-ma.”
Lisa See
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
