I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received. - Amy Tan

But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish from a butcher, lay rows of people - men, women and children who had never lost hope, but had lost their lives instead.

But he was so attuned to my every movement I was sure he was reading my mind. HE had no inhibitions, and whatever ones he discovered I had he'd pry away from me like little treasures.

I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.