People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

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 didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

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

God, life changes faster than you think.