You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

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.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see 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.