"It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate."

"Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?"

"Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever."

"I have always known a thing before it happens."

"I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know the…"

"Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense?"

"Now that I'm angry at Harold, it's hard to remember what was so remarkable about him."

"That was the night, in the kitchen, that I realized I was no better than who I was... And I no longer felt angry at W…"

"On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the fir…"

"Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines."