“Your shadow stealthilyleaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needlethat sews together my footsteps.Your light pliantlystrikes the water tower, like a lightning boltthat severs the source of my life.-Soifon”

“blown into my life like a hurricane, turned me upside down, challengedme at every turn. And, together, we sparked like lightning.”

“The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.”

“There is nothing like calamity for refreshing the moment. Ironically, the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with the elastic gone, the days down around my ankles.”

“My father was right: people are always leaving. They fall in and out of your life like shadows.”

“Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.”