Tan Twan Eng quotes
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“For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”
-- Tan Twan EngSource : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books
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“Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.”
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“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
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“Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.”
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“A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.”
-- Tan Twan EngSource : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.81, Canongate Books
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“Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.”
-- Tan Twan EngSource : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.142, Canongate Books
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“To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.”
-- Tan Twan EngSource : Tan Twan Eng (2009). “The Gift of Rain”, p.69, Weinstein Books
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“I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”
-- Tan Twan EngSource : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books
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“Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.”
-- Tan Twan EngSource : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books
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“The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man”
-- Tan Twan EngSource : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.122, Canongate Books
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“Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.”
-- Tan Twan Eng
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