Quotes by : Yiyun Li

People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.

I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal....

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.

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

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

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that,....

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

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

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