Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. - Amy Tan

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

If you asked me how I felt when they told me I would marry Wen Fu, I can say only this: It was like being told I had won a big prize. And it was also like being told my head was going to be chopped off. Something between those two feelings.

I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me.