Emily

“All living creatures change in response to others. Coming out of the grasslands and seeing new people had softened the cracked plane of my heart, though attachment creates vulnerabilities. That's why hermits and sages of old always retired to a cave on the mountain... though the ones I met were all very ill-tempered, unwashed old men.”
― Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

“Revenge is a terrible dish to consume. It eats one from the inside out, no matter what they say about it being best served cold. As the Chinese saying goes, “When a gentleman takes his vengeance, ten years is not too late.”* But you and I know that chilled food inevitably leads to an upset stomach.”
― Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

“I should have known better. What you bury eventually comes to light in some form or other. That’s just the way the world works.”
― Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

“When my own child was lost, I'd been unable to eat, or even speak, from sheer grief. The fury and sorrow that had consumed me had left nothing for anything else, as though a madness had descended upon me. One that was gradually fading.”
― Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife