After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.