Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Quotes

“She should be good, not complain, learn through her eyes and ears, and make her mother proud.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds then to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.”
― Lisa See, 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, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I now understand that we learned these songs and stories not just to teach us how to behave but because we would be living out variations of them over and over again throughout our lives.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I accepted these limitations, knowing that my worth was based entirely on the child growing inside me.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Let them run while they can.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“From the second I woke up, I had seen my family in new ways and they had me filled with strange emotions --melancholy, sadness, jealousy, and a sense of injustice about many things that suddenly seemed unfair.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“فلم أكن افهم ان حصان طفولة "زهرة الثلج" الجريئ قد انكسرت روحه. كنت عنيدة كفاية لأعتقد انه كان يمكنني اناعالج حصانا اصابه العرج”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“This is how things were: heavyhearted, but done in the traditional manner. THE”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“I have heard that you should not do bed business after too much hard work, " Snow Flower told me, "but I don't believe that my mother-in-law has heard that." She looked exhausted. I felt the same way after visiting my husband's home-from the nonstop labor, from being polite, and from always being watched.
"This is the one rule my mother-in-law doesn't respect either," I commiserated. "Haven't they heard an exhausted well yields no water?”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“leerla, cerré los ojos y pensé: «Qué triste está Hermana”
― Lisa See, El abanico de seda