Yiyun Li
"But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life."
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"But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life."
Yiyun Li
"She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself."
Yiyun Li
"To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday."
Yiyun Li
"Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end."
Yiyun Li
"When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves."
Yiyun Li
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