“If I'd taken Fox's powers, I could've lived for hundreds of years, known and loved many people. But then I would've had to watch them die of illnessor old age. How many different kinds of pain can there be? How… — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
“To slip through crowds unseen in the daytime, then run at night beneath moonlight and clouds. To be free of the fear of hunger,… — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
“Not a single breath of air stirred in the light fabric at the windows. Moonlight flooded the garden with a cold radiance that slivered every leaf and glittered the gravel path. Shanghai was exciting, but it was too dense, too clamorous. Even though my little house was sheltered behind brick walls, I always sensed an undercurrent of noise, the hum… — Janie Chang Copy Share
“There was nothing to forgive, nothing to explain. Her love washed over me to erase all the years that had come between us.” — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
“It's easier not to love, Fox had said. Yet Fox had loved her human friends, of this I was certain. She loved my mother,… — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
“If I'd taken Fox's powers, I could've lived for hundreds of years, known and loved many people. But then I would've had to watch… — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
“The best gardens are created through the art of deception, says Fox. Gardens should employ the art of the large in the small and… — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
“How can you tell whether anyone is truly good or evil? I've been a Fox for hundreds of years and from what I've seen… — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
“You've suffered enough for three lifetimes, Mama," I said. "You desere to go through. But I want to live at least one lifetime in… — Janie Chang Copy Share Image
