You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

God, life changes faster than you think.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.