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Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.
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The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.
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Lan Samantha Chang |
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If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.
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Lan Samantha Chang |
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She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.
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Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?
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Lan Samantha Chang |
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It's because of the way you are. It's why you're happy reading novels. You're only comfortable with a piece of the world that you can hold in your hand.
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What do you mean by yuanfen?" She thought for a minute and replied, "It means: that apportionment of love which is destined for you in this world."
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The inner Min starved; she woke in the middle of the night, then lay for hours wondering what was wrong.
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Lan Samantha Chang |
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For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world, dearly, unforgivingly, must fade.
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Lan Samantha Chang |
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For it is through humility, he knew, that holiness--and poetry--find entrance to the human soul.
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Lan Samantha Chang |
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Who would one rather be? The one who desires, or the object of desire? One's answer to this question might determine if he is meant to be a poet or something else entirely.
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Lan Samantha Chang |
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Like ginseng roots, our buried pasts have different shapes.
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Lan Samantha Chang |