Jiji

“This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Beacuse sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“The man glanced at me for a mere space of time before speaking his mind.
"You are an anchor for others, constantly," he pointed out, his voice like a song-bird's melody, "But who is your anchor, Poe?"
I paused in my inspection of the book he had given me.
"I don't have one," I simply said.”
― Poe Nakahara (PoeTheWriter)

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!”
― Arthur Miller , Death of a Salesman