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Lisa See es una novelista de origen chino establecida en Estados Unidos y que escribe en inglés.

✵ 18. febrero 1955
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“… comprendo que no valoraba el amor más importante: el que surge de lo más profundo del corazón.”

Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Lisa See: Frases en inglés

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Fuente: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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“The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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“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.”

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Lisa See libro Peony in Love

Fuente: Peony in Love

“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”

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Lisa See libro Peony in Love

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“Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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“Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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“Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.”

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Lisa See libro Shanghai Girls

Fuente: Shanghai Girls

“We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.”

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Lisa See libro Shanghai Girls

Fuente: Shanghai Girls

“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Fuente: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love”

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Lisa See libro Peony in Love

Fuente: Peony in Love

“How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”

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Lisa See libro Peony in Love

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“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”

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Lisa See libro Peony in Love

Fuente: Peony in Love

“Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.”

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Lisa See libro Shanghai Girls

Fuente: Shanghai Girls

“My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.”

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Lisa See libro Peony in Love

Fuente: Peony in Love

“Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.”

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Lisa See libro Dreams of Joy

Fuente: Dreams of Joy

“There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Fuente: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.”

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Lisa See libro Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

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“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.”

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Lisa See libro Peony in Love

Fuente: Peony in Love