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.

a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a spark to start a fire or a seed to grow rice. But a single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love--true-heart love--must grow.

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.

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

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love