“I won't be what I'm not.
-Jing-mei”

“But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
-Jing-mei”

“Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei”

“I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.”

“You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei”

“I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.”

“Harde is his herte that loveth nought
In Mey, …”

“I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God. ”

“I don't care if I'm remembered or not when I'm dead. (A scientist I knew at General Electric, who was married to a woman named Josephine, said to me, "Why should I buy life insurance? If I die, I won't care what's happening to Jo. I won't care about anything. I'll be dead.")”

“If i'm going to survive, it won't be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I'm not Hercules.”