And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained….

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei.

My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by ….

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?.

I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a ….

I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting. "Th….

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?.

God, life changes faster than you think..

And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it." And even though I know it's….

I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was not….

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life.….

Your only shame is to have shame..

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations..

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water..

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it wil….

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer..

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel s….

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. An….

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose.

Seeing her this last time, I threw myself on her body. And she opened her eyes slowly. I was not scared. I knew she could see me and what she had fin….