“I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations."- Two Kinds”

“At first, I thought it was because I was raised with all this Chinese humility... Or maybe it was because when you're Chinese you're supposed to accept everything, flow with the Tao and not make waves. But my therapist said, Why do you blamd your culture, your ethnicity? And I remembered reading an article about baby boomers, how we expect the best and when we get it we worry that maybe we shoudl have expected more, because it's all diminishing returns after a certain age.”

“Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!”

“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”

“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.”

“Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.”

“And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.-Rose”