I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
“Glazed brick, white mortar, and blue roof-tiles do not make a house beautiful; carved rosewood, gold cloth, and clear green jade do not furnish a house with grace; a man of cultivated mind makes a house of mud and wattle beautiful; a woman, even with a pock-marked face; if refined of heart, fills a house with grace. -House of Exile” — Nora Waln Copy Share
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied. — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image