Quotes by : Yiyun Li

It was not about keeping a man it was a lesson on how not to become an ugly woman.

Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter.....

There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.

The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?

When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility....

Never would I have a more memorable time than the month I spent in the mountains, though I wonder, when....

I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all....

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best a man bargained for the better but also the....

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while....