You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.