Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

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.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.