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.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

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.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.