Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories Quotes

“God generously gave him everything else that's good, but why did he leave out all intelligence?”
― Ding Ling, Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories

“As for me, I seek the good things of life all the more keenly because my life is going to be so rushed and short. It's not because I'm afraid of death but because I always feel that I've yet to enjoy everything life has to offer. I want, I want to make myself happy. Day and night I'm always dreaming of things that would enable me to have no regrets when I die.”
― Ding Ling, Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories

“Happiness lies not so much in having a lover as in that the two of them have no greater wish.”
― Ding Ling, Miss Sophie's Diary and Other Stories