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

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
-Suyuan

Dementia. Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease? It was a name befitting a goddess: Dementia, who caused her sister Demeter to forget to turn winter into spring.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.