Brave Orchid Quotes

“This is terrible ghost country, where a human being works her life away. ”

“You wouldn’t like to be forgotten as if you had never been born.”

″‘Do you really think I can be a mother of sons? Don’t you think they’ll be loyal to her, since she gave birth to them?’ ‘The children will go to their true mother—you,’ said Brave Orchid. ‘That’s the way it is with mothers and children.‘”

“There is no pain you can inflict that I cannot endure.”

“In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born.”