The Secret Of Life, Though, Is To

Every New Book Is A Challenge. I Could, Of Course, Have Stopped Many Years Ago If It Was Only For Money. But No, It Is About Building Bridges Among Cultures, Different Cultures... When You Want Someone To Understand Something That Is Not Forcefully In Your Culture, You Use Stories.

I Am Two Women: One Wants To Have All The Joy, Passion And Adventure That Life Can Give Me. The Other Wants To Be A Slave To Routine, To Family Life, To The Things That Can Be Planned And Achieved. I'm A Housewife And A Prostitute, Both Of Us Living In The Same Body And Doing Battle With Each Other.

There Was A Language In The World That Everyone Understood, A Language The Boy Had Used Throughout The Time That He Was Trying To Improve Things At The Shop. It Was The Language Of Enthusiasm, Of Things Accomplished With Love And Purpose, And As Part Of A Search For Something Believed In And Desired.

Tragedies Do Happen. We Can Discover The Reason, Blame Others, Imagine How Different Our Lives Would Be Had They Not Occurred. But None Of That Is Important: They Did Occur, And So Be It. From There Onward We Must Put Aside The Fear That They Awoke In Us And Begin To Rebuild

Scars Speak More Loudly Than The Sword That Caused Them.