Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward

knowing that time and space don’t always make the heart remember – sometimes just the opposite.

Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much

Hope is all I got. Hope gets you through the night

People relations is hard business

Time and space is a hard one to deal with

Obedience as a sign of loyalty, as an expression of honor, even as an act of love, was a well-worn theme in his household

. They asked – no, told – him to stop speaking their native Chinese. It was 1942, and they were desperate for him to learn English.

because they asked him to.

Young Henry Lee stopped talking to his parents when he was twelve years old