too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow. - Amy Tan

Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief.

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

. . .the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true. . .And believing in ghosts - that's believing that love never dies. If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.