"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all be the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."
--Arthur Golden, "Memoirs of a Geisha"
"Sometime touching another person is more than I can bear."
--Walt Whitman
"Maybe his ashes will blow that person into a place where things do not come out right, where things cannot be boxed up or spackled back together but where somehow he or she can see, with whatever joy can be mustered, the four or five leaves on the formerly barren tree."
--Traveling Mercies
"We are here to learn to endure the beams of love."
--William Blake
"In your eyes/The light the heat/In your eyes/I am complete/In your