💬 Quotes

"The past was a ghost; it could haunt you or it could be the foundation upon which you built your new life. He chose the latter."

"If only she had known, she might have been able to make it right. But there was no one to tell her, and no one to help her, and so she was alone."

"I can see the things you're thinking, Momma. I can see the things you're feeling. They're like little sparks. They're all over you."

"She was a finger snapping in a dark room. She was a match struck in a basement."

"They're all going to laugh at you!"

"A girl is a girl, but a woman is a creature of strange and wonderful mystery, and that is what you are becoming."

"Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective."

"If you don't heal what hurt you, you'll bleed on people who didn't cut you."

"The truth is, sometimes you don't get closure. You just move on."

"I’m not a person who can just forget. I’m a person who has to understand."

"Losing hope is the first step toward finding it."

"You can't change the past, but you can choose to make the future something worth living for."

"Death is not the end, it’s merely a transition. A shedding of the old skin to reveal the new."

"The past is a ghost that haunts the living, but only if you let it."

"It’s funny how you can be surrounded by people and yet feel completely, utterly alone."

"Every person you meet has a story, and every story has a secret. Some secrets are worth keeping, and others are just waiting to be told."

"Love isn't just a feeling; it’s a commitment. A promise to hold onto someone even when the shadows threaten to pull you apart."

"A woman’s life is like a flower—we bloom for a season, but we are always rooted in the soil of our family’s expectations."

"I had known my laotong, Snow Flower, for a lifetime, yet I felt as though I were only just beginning to understand the depth of our connection."

"To be a woman is to endure, to be silent, and to find beauty in the small spaces allowed to us."