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

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Source : Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.42, A&C Black

Lisa See

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“The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.”

Source : Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”
“Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.”
“War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.”
“Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?”

Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
“To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.”

Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books
“A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.”
“Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.”
“I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.”

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