what more could one want?

"Supermarket? I had hardly thought of the word for months. What would I do if I ever walked down an aisle again, pushing a cart? The whole idea of all that variety seemed ridiculous. If one had a little rice and vegetable, and a few kinds of meat or fish, what more could one want?"(p. 97, The Spring Wind)

"To accept the otherness of other people was a thing I could do... but to become that otherness... to submerge totally what I thought I was in another's style of living... in another's life... this was almost like annihilation." (p. 78)

"Perhaps this was what relationship meant... trust. To be able to give help and take help..." (p.50)