" A life with love is happy. A life for love is foolish. A life of if only is unbearable. In my seventy-eight years, I have had all three. Grandmother would often say, “So it is with sorrow. So it is with happiness. It will pass.” But even in my old age, when I close my eyes, I can still see the distant flicker of a thousand tiny lights. "

― Ana Johns , The Woman in the White Kimono