Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually, thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... "Come from the South, blow from the wind - poom! - North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen."

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.