“Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi')”

“But for your eyes. Green as spring grass, and sparkling like dew in the morning sun.”

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

“Imagine your body replaced by dust and vapor, and having a tingly feeling in your stomach without even having a stomach. Imagine having to concentrate just to keep yourself from dispersing into nothing.I got so angry, a flash of lightning crackled inside me.“Don’t be that way,” Amos chuckled. “It’s only for a few minutes.”

“I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.”

“Not to be with the one you love, Laura, the one person you should be spending your life with--it’s like a kind of living death. To wake up every morning and know you are still here. To have that brief, sweet moment of blankness, before your mind reminds you who you are, and why you are unhappy. It was like hell. A living hell of the heart’s own making.”