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Top 200 Lisa See Quotes (2026 Update)
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Lisa See Quote: “On land, you will be a mother. In the sea, you can be a grieving widow. Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.”

101. “On land, you will be a mother. In the sea, you can be a grieving widow. Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.”

Lisa See Quote: “As the eldest daughter, I had always been responsible for my younger siblings. Now I had to provide their food and clothing and be a second mother to them. My father was no help. He was a kind man, but he shuddered under the added responsibility. Too often I found him outside, alone with his sadness. No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.”

102. “As the eldest daughter, I had always been responsible for my younger siblings. Now I had to provide their food and clothing and be a second mother to them. My father was no help. He was a kind man, but he shuddered under the added responsibility. Too often I found him outside, alone with his sadness. No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.”

Lisa See Quote: “The sea, it is said, is like a mother. The salt water, the pulse and surges of the current, the magnified beat of your heart, and the muffled sounds reverberating through the water together recall the womb.”

103. “The sea, it is said, is like a mother. The salt water, the pulse and surges of the current, the magnified beat of your heart, and the muffled sounds reverberating through the water together recall the womb.”

Lisa See Quote: “Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it’s your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.”

104. “Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it’s your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.”

Lisa See Quote: “Every passing moment is the passing of life; every moment of life is life itself.”

105. “Every passing moment is the passing of life; every moment of life is life itself.”

Lisa See Quote: “You aren’t aware your clothes are getting wet in the rain.”

106. “You aren’t aware your clothes are getting wet in the rain.”

Lisa See Quote: “I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That’s the meaning of fate.”

107. “I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That’s the meaning of fate.”

Lisa See Quote: “The sea is better than a mother. You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.”

108. “The sea is better than a mother. You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.”

Lisa See Quote: “Everything always returns to the beginning.”

109. “Everything always returns to the beginning.”

Lisa See Quote: “The river passes through our mountains, changing its name to Mekong where China, Laos, and Burma meet, before flowing through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and eventually to the South China Sea. “Yes! It is called the Danube of the East.”

110. “The river passes through our mountains, changing its name to Mekong where China, Laos, and Burma meet, before flowing through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and eventually to the South China Sea. “Yes! It is called the Danube of the East.”

Lisa See Quote: “Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.”

111. “Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.”

Lisa See Quote: “I didn’t know you would be here last night, but you were. We can’t fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.”

112. “I didn’t know you would be here last night, but you were. We can’t fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.”

Lisa See Quote: “For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me – as a girl and later as a woman – to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

113. “For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me – as a girl and later as a woman – to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

Lisa See Quote: “You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”

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

Lisa See Quote: “How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”

115. “How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?”

Lisa See Quote: “Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming – weren’t our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”

116. “Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming – weren’t our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”

Lisa See Quote: “I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”

117. “I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”

Lisa See Quote: “And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.”

118. “And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.”

Lisa See Quote: “Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”

119. “Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”

Lisa See Quote: “Don’t ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.”

120. “Don’t ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.”

Lisa See Quote: “In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.”

121. “In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.”

Lisa See Quote: “In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men’s writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother’s love.”

122. “In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men’s writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother’s love.”

Lisa See Quote: “How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments.”

123. “How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments.”

Lisa See Quote: “Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love.”

124. “Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love.”

Lisa See Quote: “Fall down eight times, stand up nine. For me, this saying is less about the dead paving the way for future generations than it is for the women of Jeju. We suffer and suffer and suffer, but we also keep getting up. We keep living. You would not be here if you weren’t brave. Now you need to be braver still.”

125. “Fall down eight times, stand up nine. For me, this saying is less about the dead paving the way for future generations than it is for the women of Jeju. We suffer and suffer and suffer, but we also keep getting up. We keep living. You would not be here if you weren’t brave. Now you need to be braver still.”

Lisa See Quote: “In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”

126. “In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”

Lisa See Quote: “If you work hard, you will eat easy. If you work easy, you will eat hard.”

127. “If you work hard, you will eat easy. If you work easy, you will eat hard.”

Lisa See Quote: “My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.”

128. “My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.”

Lisa See Quote: “You are a haenyeo! Never for one moment believe you are unworthy.”

129. “You are a haenyeo! Never for one moment believe you are unworthy.”

Lisa See Quote: “All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.”

130. “All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.”

Lisa See Quote: “Women live quietly,” I said. “However angry or broken a woman might get, she does not think about beating someone, does she?”

131. “Women live quietly,” I said. “However angry or broken a woman might get, she does not think about beating someone, does she?”

Lisa See Quote: “You have been a good mother to your children, but now you must be an even better and stronger mother. Children are hope and joy. On land, you will be a mother. In the sea, you can be a grieving widow. Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.”

132. “You have been a good mother to your children, but now you must be an even better and stronger mother. Children are hope and joy. On land, you will be a mother. In the sea, you can be a grieving widow. Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.”

Lisa See Quote: “For a tree that has many branches, even a small breeze will shake some loose.”

133. “For a tree that has many branches, even a small breeze will shake some loose.”

Lisa See Quote: “I’d never waste the hours of light in the darkness of slumber.”

134. “I’d never waste the hours of light in the darkness of slumber.”

Lisa See Quote: “I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That’s universal in women’s friendships.”

135. “I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That’s universal in women’s friendships.”

Lisa See Quote: “Rice is to nourish,” A-ma says. “Tea is to heal. Always remember that food is medicine, and medicine is food. If you take care of the trees, the trees will take care of you.”

136. “Rice is to nourish,” A-ma says. “Tea is to heal. Always remember that food is medicine, and medicine is food. If you take care of the trees, the trees will take care of you.”

Lisa See Quote: “My home is here with this family I’ve built from scraps of tragedy.”

137. “My home is here with this family I’ve built from scraps of tragedy.”

Lisa See Quote: “No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one.”

138. “No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one.”

Lisa See Quote: “I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.”

139. “I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.”

Lisa See Quote: “The three most important powers are Heaven, Earth and Man. The three luminaries are the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Opportunities given by Heaven are not equal to the advantages afforded by Earth, while the advantages of Earth do not match the blessings that come from harmony among men.”

140. “The three most important powers are Heaven, Earth and Man. The three luminaries are the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. Opportunities given by Heaven are not equal to the advantages afforded by Earth, while the advantages of Earth do not match the blessings that come from harmony among men.”

Lisa See Quote: “Maybe our lives are like gigantic jigsaw puzzles. You find the right piece and suddenly the whole picture has meaning.”

141. “Maybe our lives are like gigantic jigsaw puzzles. You find the right piece and suddenly the whole picture has meaning.”

Lisa See Quote: “We were to be like long vines with entwined roots, like trees that stand a thousand years, like a pair of mandarin ducks mated for life.”

142. “We were to be like long vines with entwined roots, like trees that stand a thousand years, like a pair of mandarin ducks mated for life.”

Lisa See Quote: “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.”

143. “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 Quote: “I’ve come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.”

144. “I’ve come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.”

Lisa See Quote: “If there is happiness at age three, it will last until you reach eighty.”

145. “If there is happiness at age three, it will last until you reach eighty.”

Lisa See Quote: “The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.”

146. “The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.”

Lisa See Quote: “Maybe stories and memories are destined to be incomplete...”

147. “Maybe stories and memories are destined to be incomplete...”

Lisa See Quote: “It’s said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one’s capacity for great joy. I see it from the opposite direction. I’m happy, but there’s an empty space inside me that will never stop suffering from the loss of Yan-yeh.”

148. “It’s said that great sorrow is no more than a reflection of one’s capacity for great joy. I see it from the opposite direction. I’m happy, but there’s an empty space inside me that will never stop suffering from the loss of Yan-yeh.”

Lisa See Quote: “Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.”

149. “Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.”

Lisa See Quote: “A single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love – true heart love – must grow.”

150. “A single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love – true heart love – must grow.”

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