You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.
Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.