Sublime

“But you know so many men,” said Ophelia, “isn’t there even one for you?” “They’re all adjectives,” said [Sophie], “they all make me feel modified;

She needed something easy.

Hai Ruo exclaims in delight at the gifts. She begins to take the doll apart: inside it is another, and another and another. "Amazing! One woman turns into five!"

"That's you," says Eva. "Wife, mother, teashop owner, head of the family, the sisterhood's big sister."

I am, as you know, a bottomless pit of ambition and need. But I also want to make something sweet. Something kids like us would have wanted to play to forget their troubles for a while.” Sadie was moved by Sam’s words—in the years she had known him, he so rarely mentioned his own pain.