“To be parent and child means only this: in this life, you watch their back recede further and further away.”

— Lung Ying-tai · Love quote

To be parent and child means only this: in this life, you watch their back recede further and further away. — Lung Ying-tai quote card
Writer · born 1952

Lung Ying-tai is a Taiwanese writer and essayist, and served as Taiwan's first Minister of Culture. Her book of essays on family, Mu Song ('Watching You Go'), moved readers across the Chinese-speaking world.

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