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256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
"I felt...I felt something that made me want to run and run until I couldn't run anymore, something that made me think I couldn't stop running even if I crashed and shattered."
"Please, do me a favor, and don't criticize me for making marriage my first choice. And don't try to use pretty words to convince me otherwise. Of course I realize that women my age have other options and don't have to get married. Who doesn't? But there are women do who choose marriage. Obviously there are others who study or throw themselves into their work or who scoff at marriage and travel the world. It's not as though I'm the only one who hasn't examined the possiblities fully."
"Am I a prison to you?"
"Never wander a strange road at sunset. When darkness settles in indigo tones from the far side of the sky, your heart aches with a sadness you can't explain...And its not just your heart that aches. Out pour the tears. I dont know why."
"As she spoke of a husband whose memories consisted only of photographs, she looked like a young girl who buys a storybook only to find it has a title but no text. Its empty. How strange."
"Jin-Jin I'm sorry. They're my own flesh and blood - I love them more than I love you...I'm really sorry."
"His boundless love for us trapped him behind an iron door, three layers thick. It was only to be expected that he struggled so long, dreaming of escape."
"Did he feel the way I did- that somebody was grabbing him, tugging at his ankles? That a hole had formed in his heart? Did he feel a loneliness so deep that it made him want to cry?"
"Love makes us more beautiful and distorts us."
"...if gratitude like this is also love"