1. "Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most."
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2. "You can't fight your fate...It is predestined."
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3. "Everyone knows that part of the spirit descends to the afterworld, while part of it remains with the family, but we have a special belief about the spirit of a young woman who has died before her marriage that goes contrary to this. She comes back to prey upon other unmarried girls--not to scare them but to take them to the afterworld with her so she might have company."
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4. "People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other."
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5. "You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you."
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6. "I wonder if there was anything I could have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know that everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate. But if some things are fated and some people are luckier than others, then I also have to believe that I still haven't found my destiny."
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7. "Blessings and worry, happiness and fear – this is a mother’s love."
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8. "Give a low man one ounce of power and he’ll throw ten thousand pounds of bricks on your head."
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9. "Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years."
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10. "Only through pain will you have beauty. Only through suffering will you find peace. I wrap, I bind, but you will have the reward."
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