Trees give peace to the souls of men.

- Nora Waln

Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and …

- Nora Waln

[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery …

- Nora Waln

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

- Nora Waln

I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, o…

- Nora Waln