Love can be overwhelming.
Life can be meaningless.
A novel can be a lighthouse of hope.
Also, it can be an instruction to death.
It is appalling to see a lively child turn into a lifeless patient. The absence of maternal love affected Richard for a lifetime. He was forever haunted by mother's abandoning the family and then jumped off the building to liberate himself and the caring Clarissa.
"You can't find peace by avoiding life.
——A woman's whole life in a single day."