Yiyun Li Quotes

But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.

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.

I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind of life permits a person the right to become his own subject?

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.