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1 " Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. "
― Susie Yang , White Ivy
2 " ... Give with one hand and take with the other. No one will be watching both.” P7 "
3 " That was the thing about getting too much happiness at once. Without time to adjust, the pain of not having it suddenly became unbearable. "
4 " All women, Ivy was beginning to understand, had a theme. The story they constantly told themselves. The innermost wound. "
5 " In the same way water trickles into even the tiniest cracks between boulders, her personality had formed into crooked shapes around the hard structure of her Chinese upbringing. "
6 " She always thought loyalty necessitated a certain blindness, like religious faith. "
7 " One successful marriage can feed three generations.” Even a tragic love story, filtered through Meifeng’s eyes, boiled down to food and money. "
8 " Never dose a woman lie in a more cunning way than when she tells the truth to a man who doesn't believe her "
9 " Let this be your first lesson: give with one hand and take with the other. No one will be watching both. "
10 " As I get older, I think that a shared history counts for a lot more in friendship than quantity of time spent with another person. "
11 " You have to give a man something to fight for. That’s the secret to a lasting marriage. "
12 " To show you were wounded from battle was to loose the war "
13 " You used to ask how your father and I got married. That’s how. It was because I willed it. If I had been a stupider girl, your father never would have looked at me. But I saw my chance and made a story for myself—even if it was a false story. You have to give a man something to fight for. That’s the secret to a lasting marriage. "
14 " To go fast, they say, you must go alone, but to go far, you must go with others. "
15 " Her parents’ mantra: The harder you work, the luckier you are. "
16 " Be humble and grateful for what you have. Don’t expect too much from life. If you go looking, you’ll always find people who are better than you. "
17 " It was the oldest law in physics: the system itself can never change, it can only be rearranged. "
18 " His eyes were the clear glittering gray of a frozen lake in which drops of dew hung in eternal suspended beauty; she felt she could see down the depths of a subterranean world, just by peering at those hard, gray eyes. "
19 " After we’re married, we’ll move in together so you won’t have to worry about rent, at least,” Gideon said, neatly reading her mind in his tactful way. "
