If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

Memory feeds imagination.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

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