Ziyan’s Reviews > Light Years > Status Update

The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

"Detachment is what brings forth humor. It's a paradox.
We're the only creatures that laugh, they say, and the more we laugh, the less we care."