“Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.”

“Ying Yang ”

“But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.-Ying Ying”

“All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me.-Ying Ying”

“My daughter Mei-Ying prefers to spend her time riding and practicing Shaolin fighting. No man will marry a woman who can toss him to the ground.Zhou shakes his head with a father's loving exasperation.”

“The way I see it, the nineteenth century was a British century. The twenthieth century is an American century. I predict that the twenty-first century will be a Chinese century. The pendulum of history will swing from the ying ashes brought by the Cultural Revolution to the yang pheonix arising from its wreckage.Aunt Baba, pg 226. Year 1979”