Lisa See Quotes

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

the human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.

Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.