"  “No acute attacks of guilt and self-hatred?”

“Nope. I’ve taken Mr. Wu’s advice: never mind how hard the times are, he always says, carry a green branch in your heart and a songbird will settle on it.”

“Wow—where on earth does Mr. Wu get all these hoary old sayings from?”  "

― Kerstin Gier , Das zweite Buch der Träume (Silber, #2)