My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.

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

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.