You had me at hello.

How my Asian mother packs for overseas.

BERNICE: Never clutch onto the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close And Incredibly Close

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions —the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You had me at hello.

"The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets." - Poppy Z. Brite

The past.