Henry Lau was a liar, the truth was almost never near his words. He hid his feelings, feigned happiness and pretended he was not hurting. Lies and falsities require commitment and Henry would turn the world upside down for things to stay that way, for his lies to remain his version of truth. Nobody could see behind his mask until things went out of control and the truth came out on its own.

“It was the meanest moment of eternity.” ― 

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” ― 

"A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”                                                       Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

"Smile, it's better than trying to explain why you're sad"  

Annie considers herself the unluckiest girl in the world. She was orphaned at a young age, she barely made friends in school and she has been alone for most of her life. The world, as she knows it, is conspiring against her. What if a certain piece of bad luck, of being in a wrong place in a wrong time, brought her the single piece of good luck she has been waiting for her entire life.

~*~ “To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair” ―