Adeline Yen Mah · 205 pages
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“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they’ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. You’ll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you don’t, I’m afraid they will not respect you as much.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as oportunity.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“That’s exactly what I’ll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I’m going to ask Big
Brother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there’s
obviously nobody looking out for me. I’ll just have to find my own way.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“Day after day, anxiety spun its web around my thoughts and spread to all corners of my heart.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“quickly pretended disappointment. We hailed a taxi and squeezed in with all our luggage. Aunt Reine”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“You can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“I ran over without a word, cradled PLT tenderly in my arms and carried her upstairs. Placing her on my own bed, I wrapped my mortally wounded pet in my best school scarf and lay down next to her. It was a night of grief I have never forgotten.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, quote from Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Adeline Yen Mah
Born place: in China
Born date November 30, 1937
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