“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.”Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret FanSource: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“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.”Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret FanSource: 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”Lisa See book Peony in LoveSource: Peony in Love