"It seemed like suddenly everyone realized that within love there were lurking battles with authority, the huge burden of tradition, the struggle between the weak and the strong, the conditions of negotiation, and the bitterness of independence," Liao says. She writes in the preface to Seedlings that almost anyone living under one roof--whether parents and children or husband and wife--will have a tangled web of feelings of love and hate.
「人們好像忽然間才瞭解，原來愛裡面還潛藏著權力的拉鋸、傳統的巨大包袱、強弱勢的對峙、談判的條件、獨立的辛酸… …，」廖輝英在《油蔴菜籽》自序中表示，再親密的人，守在一個屋子裡，不論是親子、夫妻，幾乎都是愛恨交織的糾纏一輩子。