Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else.

Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript