Chinese Cinderella Quotes

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they’ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. You’ll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you don’t, I’m afraid they will not respect you as much.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as oportunity.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Day after day, anxiety spun its web around my thoughts and spread to all corners of my heart.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Create your own destiny!”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“That’s exactly what I’ll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I’m going to ask Big
Brother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there’s
obviously nobody looking out for me. I’ll just have to find my own way.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“You can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“quickly pretended disappointment. We hailed a taxi and squeezed in with all our luggage. Aunt Reine”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other worlds.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“I ran over without a word, cradled PLT tenderly in my arms and carried her upstairs. Placing her on my own bed, I wrapped my mortally wounded pet in my best school scarf and lay down next to her. It was a night of grief I have never forgotten.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“At the end of his speech, we clapped politely. He then asked if there were any questions. There was a pause. “Surely,” he coaxed, “one of you young ladies must be curious about something!” He took another drag on his cigarette. We stared at the tendrils of smoke coming out of his nose. Finally, after another embarassing lull, Wu Chun-mei raised her hand. “Now, here is a brave young girl!” he exclaimed. “What is your question, my dear?” “I hope you don’t mind,” Wu Chun-mei asked in her flawless English. “But can you make the smoke come out of your ears too?”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“I don't know why, but I feel as if it's the two of us against the world. Whatever happens, we must never let them win.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Okuyorum. Çünkü buna mecburum. Kafamda her şeyi alıp götürüyor. Kaçıp başka dünyaları keşfetmemi sağlıyor. Kitaplarımdaki insanlar başkalarından daha gerçek. Her şeyi unutturuyorlar.”
― Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“But if I tried to be really good and studied very very hard, perhaps things would become different one day, I would think. Meanwhile, I must not tell anyone how bad it really was.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Though you have a fine mind and a subtle intellect, the sentiments you express not only expose your ignorance, they also wound my heart.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backward.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter