Mei Mei Quotes

#1. The braid is always stronger than the strand.

Ryan Graudin

#2. But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.
-Jing-mei

Amy Tan

#3. We all have scars. From loving someone too deeply. From wanting to protect someone too much.

Kanae Hazuki

#4. Soft margins and wide peripheries unfocused, I don't give form to my appreciation, but sit quietly with a quality of blossoms that feels like light.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

#5. A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

William Hazlitt

#6. Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a palm out and she was the only one who left with an empty hand.

Amy Tan

#7. If you know your enemy as you know your friend," her mother had said when she gave Mei the book, "then there is hope your enemy will become your friend.

Nigel Ashland

#8. This is my world. Wide and open and waiting.

Ryan Graudin

#9. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#10. Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.

Pang-Mei Natasha Chang

#11. We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green plants and growing. Fairies naturally came to mind when I imagined walking in green places. They are workers for the growth principle.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

#12. If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#13. But I remember the way Jin Ling made her wishes. How she said I wish we could be together forever with the bite of a tigress. Nothing would be impossible enough to keep her wishes from being fulfilled. Not even the walled City.

Ryan Graudin

#14. For Americans, the car is the American way. Jay Gatsby roars through capitalism, individual freedom, and the good life. For China, the train is the metaphor. Everyone's on board, there's no chance to steer, and it's clickety-clack to collectivism's dreams.

Mei Fong

#15. when life hands you lemons you should take them . . . and whack life by the butt with those damn lemon until its bruised and then go munch on some chocolate

Mei

#16. Montesquieu wrote: "I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve." If one substituted the word music for reading, the exact same dictum applied to me.

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#17. Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#18. Everything was burning. Today it was the bodies; tomorrow it would be the spirit.

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#19. But this...her...she's more than warmth. She's fire, a soul, a name. Mei Yee reverbs through my head, my veins. Lodges like shrapnel in the far reaches of my chest. More powerful than a pound of C-4. Uncontrollable.

Ryan Graudin

#20. The world doesn't revolve around you, Drew."
"Well, my world does.

Veronica Wolff

#21. A true master is able to turn the hardest knowledge into easily graspable concepts. A master's knowledge is complete and organized, touching on neighboring topics, and personal. Mei

Jinkang Wang

#22. She'd just gone ice princess on him. As an ice dragon himself, he knew something about frigid.
Mei made frigid look like a balmy day on the equator.

Susannah Scott

#23. I wasn't expecting a drug dealer to be..classy

Amy Mei

#24. Cruor pectoris mei, tutela tua est!
Blood of my heart, protection is thine!

Kami Garcia

#25. To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.
-Jing-mei

Amy Tan

#26. Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.

Hong Mei

#27. Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#28. Death is not friendly. It's dark, black where you look at it. You're all alone. But it's no different when you're alive, right? No matter how many relationships we seem to have, we're all alone. - Misaki Mei

Yukito Ayatsuji

#29. As a bookish child, I would come to see the one-child policy as one of the most fascinating and bizarre things about the land of my ancestors, equal parts Aldous Huxley and King Herod.

Mei Fong

#30. There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my friend, is dining.

Yuan Mei

#31. You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying.
-An-mei

Amy Tan

#32. I won't be what I'm not.
-Jing-mei

Amy Tan

#33. The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

#34. What is China but a people and their stories?

Gene Luen Yang