“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“كل النساء على الأرض والرجال أيضاُ ، يتمنون ذلك النوع من الحب الذي يحولنا ويرتقي بنا فوق الحياة اليومية ويمنحنا الشجاعة لنتخطى مآسينا الصغيرة :كـ انفطار قلوبنا على الأحلام التي لم تتحقق وخيبات الأمل الشخصية وعلاقات الحب المحطمة .”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“إن القصص تخبرنا كيف ينبغي لنا أن نعيش ..”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“So many mistakes. So many errors. So much tragedy as a result. In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“I saw that deep-heart love meant loving someone in spite of and because of his limitations.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“When in the world did anyone die from a dream?”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“عندما يكون الناس أحياء فإنهم يحبون . وعندما يموتون يستمرون بالحب. وإن إنتهى الحب بموت الإنسان, فهذا ليس بحب حقيقي”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“فهمت كم يمكن لروعة الربيع أن تكون مزعجة و وقتية”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“أليست الاحلام هي ما تمنحنا القوة والأمل والرغبة”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“إن معظم من يحزنون لزوال الربيع يتأثرون كل التأثر لرؤية البراعم المتساقطة, كما شعرت عندما مشيت لآخر مرة في حديقتنا. إن لينيانغ ترى الاوراق فتدرك أن شبابها وجمالها عابران, ولكنها لاتدرك أن حياتها هشة أيضا”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“إن الزواج يشبه في نظرنا نحن البنات الموت من بعض النواحي لاننا نودع آباءنا وأمهاتنا وعماتنا وأبناء عمنا وخادماتنا اللواتي اعتنين بنا ونذهب إلى حياة جديدة كليا. فنعيش مع عائلاتنا الحقيقية التي تدرج اسماءنا في قاعة اسلافها .وبهذه الطريقة يشبه الزواج الموت والبعث من جديد من دون الذهاب الى العالم الإخر”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would collect books, read, and drink tea together. As I told you before, I'd want you for what's in here.'
Again he pointed to my heart, but I felt it in a place far lower in my body.”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“إليكم حقيقة من حقائق الموت : أحيانا ينسى المرء أشياء اعتبرها في الماضي مهمة”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“قبل ألف سنة , كتب الشاعر هان يون قائلا"كل الكائنات التي لاتعيش بسلام تصيح". وقارن بهذا حاجة البشر إلى التعبير عن مشاعرهم بالكتابة ,بالقوى الطبيعية التي تجبر النباتات على الحفيف في الرياح أو المعادن على الرنين”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
“لماذا تشبه أفكار النساء الازهار في مهب الرياح. فتنجرف مع التيار وتتلاشى بلا أثر?”
― Lisa See, quote from Peony in Love
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“The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, quote from The Mermaid Chair
“She hadn’t visited this spot in a few years, but when she was younger it had been a frequent hideout. She called it the Barbie Graveyard because it was where, one night when she was nine years old, she’d ceremoniously buried every single doll she had. She’d marked the site with a melted Barbie toaster. “They all died in an electrical fire,” she told her mother somberly. “I couldn’t save them.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, quote from If You're Reading This, It's Too Late
“The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.”
― Richard Dawkins, quote from The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
“In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself.”
― Michelle Moran, quote from Nefertiti
“Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.”
― Christopher Marlowe, quote from Dr. Faustus
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