Your only shame is to have shame.

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

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.

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

That is the nature of endings, it seems. They never end. When all the missing pieces of your life are found, put together with glue of memory and reason, there are more pieces to be found.

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

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