Do Not Say We Have Nothing

by Madeleine Thien

“I promise you that for all our life together, I will seek worlds that we might never have encountered in our singularity and our solitude. I will shelter our family. I will share your tears. I will bind my happiness to yours. Our country is about to be born. Let us, too, have the chance to begin again.”

what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow and not the ever, infinitely, unbearably unchanging yesterday.

light is never still and solid and so it is with love.

“Light and shadow — ‘All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.’ — Leo Tolstoy.