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"For Miss Chen’s part, she has perfected the art of imperfection by deliberately leaving out a single stitch that might complete a peony, goldfish, or cloud. The message is clear—and one that makes a good gift to daughters who are marrying out: be humble but also recognize that no one is perfect."

Every time I open Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, I’m drawn deeper into its richly woven world. The details feel like delicate threads in a tapestry, wrapping around me and pulling me into the lives, emotions, and quiet strength of its characters. It’s more than just reading, it’s living inside the story. One of those novels you never want to finish, because leaving it feels like saying goodbye to dear friends.

Never in the past or indeed in the years ahead was he so sharply aware of that heightened sense of time that accompanies the process of self-discovery; of new faces, new experiences, new dimensions of space, shape, texture, colour and relationship that lifted him out limbo and set his feet squarely upon virgin ground.

"The black man has two dimensions. One with his fellows, the other with the white man"
"To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax,
to grasp the morphology of this or that language,
but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."