Lisa See

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted3 years ago
    The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted3 years ago
    You see, I still didn’t understand that you cannot control the manifestations of love, nor can you change another person’s destiny.
  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted3 years ago
    Yue-qing Yang’s evocative documentary, Nu-shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China,
  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted3 years ago
    We drain the family resources. We are raised by one family for another.
  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted3 years ago
    A laotong relationship was completely different from a sworn sisterhood. It involved two girls from different villages and lasted their entire lives, while a sworn sisterhood was made up of several girls and dissolved at marriage.
  • Лика Меликсетянhas quoted3 years ago
    There are three events in Yao lives—no, all Chinese lives—on which the most money is spent: birth, marriage, and death. We all wish to be born well and marry well; we all wish to die well and be buried well. But fate and practical circumstance influence these three events like no others.
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