Yiyun Li Quotes

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every min...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

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

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

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

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

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

But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.