today, i’m dreaming of places/people/times/languages
that i really don’t b e l o n g t o.

Chow Mo Wan: Love is all a matter of timing.
Chow Mo Wan: It’s no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.
Chow Mo Wan: If I’d live in another time or place…
Chow Mo Wan: …my story might have had a very different ending.

* * *

Chow Mo Wan: I slowly began to doubt myself.
Chow Mo Wan: Maybe the reason she didn’t answer was not that her reactions were delayed but simply that she didn’t love me.
Chow Mo Wan: So at last, I got it. It’s entirely beyond my control.
Chow Mo Wan: The only thing left for me… was to give up.