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Suchi knew now that home wasn’t a place. It wasn’t moments that could be pinned down. It was people. People who shared the same ghosts as you, saw you, loved you. When those people were far flung. Your home was too. And when those people were gone home lived on inside you.

She wanted to feel her mother’s hand against her face. And tell her he returned.

Suchi thought about the memories Haiwen cherished. The ones he’d spent so long golfing on to. So long examining. She never imagined as she tried to erase her past, there’d been someone out there who felt she was worth remembering.

Suchi spent her life not looking backward , only focused on surviving what was in front of her, pressing ahead day by day. For many years she’d told herself this was courage, but now the decades had passed and she found that this whole time she’d only been running away.

What sort of strength does a man’slber for home, for family, bestow Jon non. Enough they he might fight through sickness, through injury, through thousands of meters of sea?

Talking about his friend Li Tsin who jumped in the water and couldn’t swim. Haiwen recognized the fury and desperation that drove Li Tsin to jump into the sea. Not a death wish, exactly, though Haiwen, admittedly sometimes thought about that too. But there were moments when on the edge of despair and hope he believed the longing that pumped through was powerful to transport him home.

128. I like the book. It is tough to follow along with all of the names but I think I have it now.

In a scary scene and she questions if she is in the right profession lol

Alice realizes Peter and Delphine are having an affair.
Could it be that Peter and his father had chosen Alice, not in spite of her youth and inexperienced two qualities? They often lamented aloud as deficits that Alice had to work to overcome but because of them? Because she would do whatever they demanded her to do all of the time because she wouldn’t be difficult.

Bear was 8. Alice as 26. She explained how it was as if her an Peter were watching Bear on a stage. And it felt different. Peter was different. After they made love, she cried. She said she loved him and the life they built but was also crying because of all they shed been deprived of to this point. He showed affection. But she thought this had been what she’s wanted her whole life and at last it was here

TJ Hewitt. Louise went to the camp when after she was beat by John Paul. TJ knew it was John Paul and said then went to camp together and she didn’t like him. She had a picture of campers with Bear. Also snacks Bic Hewitta daughter

Louise is being questioned and John Mclelland told investigators that Louise knows where Barbara is. Also Barbara and Louise are family friends. And this is the part that I am beginning to think that Louise is making up the whole idea that she is with ajohn. She wants it but it’s not true. Hmmm