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

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.

But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying

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

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

Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.