Chue’s Mother Quotes in The Latehomecomer
My mother says she would not have married my father had she known that in doing so she would have to leave forever her mother and everyone else who loved her.
With her fingers she dug into the moist ground of a bamboo patch. In the shallow hole, she placed all the pictures of her brothers, her mother herself. She felt the bamboo trunk with her hands in the dark. If she ever touched that bamboo again, she told herself forming the words on her lips, she would remember. One day, she would find the pictures again.
I had the freedom to stand strong in the wake of love and to perhaps choose my own mother—instead of a man.
Chue’s Mother Quotes in The Latehomecomer
My mother says she would not have married my father had she known that in doing so she would have to leave forever her mother and everyone else who loved her.
With her fingers she dug into the moist ground of a bamboo patch. In the shallow hole, she placed all the pictures of her brothers, her mother herself. She felt the bamboo trunk with her hands in the dark. If she ever touched that bamboo again, she told herself forming the words on her lips, she would remember. One day, she would find the pictures again.
I had the freedom to stand strong in the wake of love and to perhaps choose my own mother—instead of a man.
