To keep false hopes is to prolong misery. - Amy Tan

The only thing certain in times of great uncertainty is that people will behave with great strength or weakness, and with very little else in between.

Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me.
When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?

What use for? asks my mother, jiggling the table with her hand. You put something else on top, everything fall down.