Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

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.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

Let those who believe, believe. Let those who doubt, doubt.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.