" Other kids get white rice, but the food you give us makes it look like we're living a subsistence life.”

“I buy white rice for the New Year's Festival,” I said, stung. Then, defensively, “I often put barley in your lunch –”

“Which is even more embarrassing, because that means we're really poor.”

“What a lucky child you are to say that. You don't know what poor means – "

― Lisa See , The Island of Sea Women