“Ying Yang ”

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

“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”

“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”

“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.”