Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture. - Amy Tan

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei

What are ghosts if not the hope that love continues beyond our ordinary senses? If ghosts are a delusion, then let me be deluded.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.