“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a 2005 novel by Lisa See set in nineteenth-century China. In her introduction to the novel, See writes that Lily, the narrator, was born on June 5, 1824—"the fifth day of the sixth month of the third year of the Daoguang Emperor's reign". The novel begins in 1903, when Lily is 80 years old. It continues on to tell the story of her life from birth, childhood, marriage, and old age. During her lifetime, Lily lives through the reigns of four emperors of the Qing dynasty: Daoguang ; Xianfeng ; Tongzhi ; and Guangxu .
“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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“There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang”
Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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“You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”
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“Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”
Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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