Don’t know what to tell you, he said slowly. I have not had time to think much about myself. Wherever I have been—at least until now, I have been mostly alone. The others were always much bigger—much...
But in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake’s sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children—...
And when he was weary he lay down upon his land and he slept and the health of the earth spread into his flesh and he was healed of his sickness.
And they looked with coming hatred and with fear upon this young man, saying in their hearts they knew he lied, because they could not believe there was in the whole world a man who would choose an ea...
Wyeth was perhaps stupid. No, he was not stupid, he was surrounded and isolated by comfort.
With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.
Well, and you may have lived in the courts of the Old Lord, and you were accounted beautiful, but I have been a man's wife and I have borne him sons, and you are still a slave.
Through these seventeen years of your life I have had this hour of your marriage in mind. In everything I have taught you I have considered two persons, the mother of your husband and your husband. Fo...
This scroll, five hundred years old and more, had been inspired by her favorite, the great Wang Wei, master of landscape art, who had painted the scenes from his own home, where he lived for thirty ye...
This monumental work, Taijang-Kyung, is now preserved in eternity in the Hal-in-sa Temple, Mount Kaya, in the province
The first question I can answer, but the second is difficult indeed, for endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be...
She smiled over a heap of flowered summery lawn she had in her lap and threaded her needle again with pink silk.
Peter groaned loudly. Sonia Pan! She's ugly.Mris. Liang would not yield. Ugly girls can be fixed now. It is not like before. And she is very good. She does not waste money.It would be no use for her t...
People everywhere do not concern themselves much beyond the common round of everyday, and this is the chief problem for a democratic government, whose success depends upon an informed and responsible...
Oh, there is a loneliness which befalls me now and then and it is something more than death.
Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, She is heaven-good. They meant that her goodness was...
It was not enough that she had never loved him. Love had nothing to do with responsibility.
It was in those days that I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured?
I do not say this is a decree, she wrote, her beautiful writing brushing the page with firm yet delicate strokes. Let it be greeting and invitation, a hope that we may meet again with quiet hearts and...