Libraries are the pride of the city.

wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

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

A Mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.

I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.

To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei