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Lisa See Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.”
— Lisa See, Love And Happiness In The Empires Of The Past, The Present, And The Future
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, H4D-14
“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
— Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Tagged: Read, Books, Literature
“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”
— Lisa See, Peony in Love
Tagged: Thinking of Someone, Intimacy, Missing A Lover, Love Affair
“That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.”
— Lisa See, Shanghai Girls: A Novel
Tagged: sisterhood, Sisters
“May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.”
— Lisa See, Shanghai Girls: A Novel
Tagged: Sister Love, sisterhood
“We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. She is the only person left in the world who shares my memories of our childhood, our parents, our Shanghai, our struggles, our sorrows, and, yes, even our moments of happiness and triumph. My sister is the one person who truly knows me, as I know her.”
— Lisa See, Shanghai Girls: A Novel
Tagged: sisterhood, Sisters
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