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-"No: I have no use for men now," said The Lily. "I have had too much to do with them. All men are the same--they take what they can get from women and give nothing in return. No--I desire a quiet home in the country, where I can keep chickens and perhaps a pig or two. I have enough money saved for that."
-"You are talking nonsense," said Ming So, sitting by her side on the edge of the paddy-field. A breath of wind stirred the fine blades of young rice, and the movement travelled across the field like a wave in shot silk. "You cannot live happily without men, or the gods would not have put men in the world. The gods are not wasteful. And as for you, Lien Fa, I think that you should remember what jealousy led you to do, and how nearly your crime was blamed on the innocent Yang Fei."