"For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me â€” as a girl and later as a woman â€” 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."

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Source : Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.1, A&C Black

Lisa See

#Girl Quotes #Roots Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.”
“God never made a promise that was too good to be true.”
“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.”
“Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.”

Source : "What the doctor ordered" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.
“Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.”
“I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.”
“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,”
“I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff”

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