“As she spoke, I wanted to cry, because sometimes it's just so damn hard to be a mother. We have to wait and wait and wait for our children to open their hearts to us. And if that doesn't work, we have to bide our time and look for the moment of weakness when we can sneak back into their lives and they will see us and remember us for the people who love them unconditionally.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“My mother used to tell me that Heaven never seals off all exits.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“I came here to be happy, and I’m going to be happy. If I smile, then maybe I can convince my body just how happy I am.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“Miracles are everywhere, and as I watch my sister--forever, beautiful, forever my little sister--staring into the eyes of the one man she ever loved, I know that indeed things do return to the beginning. The world opens again, and I see a life of happiness without fear. I gaze at my family--complicated though it may be--and know that fate smiles on us.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“It’s fair to say I don’t know what I’m doing. I like to plot my life and proceed carefully, but life doesn’t always follow a plan.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“No matter what you’re feeling or how desperate you become, always take a moral position. If you do that, God will watch over you.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“Maybe stories and memories are destined to be incomplete...”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“When you lose your home country, what do you preserve and what do you abandon?”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“spring comes, flowers fragrant, bird sings.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“The realization that truth, forgiveness, and goodness are more important than revenge, condemnation, and cruelty gives me courage and certainty.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“The lotus symbolizes purity, because it rises out of the mud but looks pristine.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“La felicità nasce dalla sofferenza, è questo ho intuito.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“winter gone, mountains clear, water sparkles.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“People are shaped by the earth and water around them.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“Tuhan memang menciptakan perempuan, namun Dia lupa menciptakan kebahagiaan.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“Waves of heat shimmy off the tarmac, and the air is stiflingly hot, with humidity that’s even worse”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“I thought I could use idealism to solve my inner conflicts, but in healing my inner conflicts I destroyed my idealism.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“To make an ox or water buffalo work so hard, it needs to be blinded and uninformed. That’s what the government is doing to the masses now.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“La felicità nasce dalla sofferenza, è questo che ho intuito.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“Non vi è ferita più profonda o dolorosa di quella inferta da coloro che sostengono di amarti di più.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“BE KIND AND BENEVOLENT. MAKE A CASUAL STOP ON THE ENDLESS WAY TO THE FUTURE. and PUT ALL TROUBLES FROM YOUR MIND.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
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“She knew exactly how he was feeling, because experience had taught her that the kind of excitement she was feeling at that moment was never, ever one-sided. On the contrary, she knew that it was born of acute and mutual anticipation, and she knew, too, that it would not be denied.”
― Jack Whyte, quote from Uther
“The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.”
― John Berryman, quote from The Dream Songs
“It's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career―it follows you and follows you and drives you into a corner and makes you read it.”
― Christopher Morley, quote from The Haunted Bookshop
“M. Van Aldin is an obstinate man," said Poirot drily. "I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mystery of the Blue Train
“Lord St. Vincent sees to it that his wife is dressed like a queen. I'll tell thee summat: if she wanted the moon for her looking glass, he'd find a way to pull it down for her.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Mine Till Midnight
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