I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.

A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.