It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

Dementia was like a truth serum.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.

I did not lose myself all at once.