Alice Poon > Quotes

“Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an inspiration for beautiful verse as they were a reminder of life's fickleness, she thought.”
― Alice Poon, The Green Phoenix: A Novel of Empress Xiaozhuang, the Woman Who Re-Made Asia

“Look at the flowing water. Water is humble. It always heads to a low point. Water is soft, formless and flexible. It slides meekly and wittily around rocks, and it nurtures the plants on the sides. That way, it is content and it sings. If you are humble, wise and nurturing like water, you will not feel shame. You will have peace.”
― Alice Poon, Tales of Ming Courtesans

“Happiness is like a slippery eel. It is hard enough to catch and even harder to hold onto.”
― Alice Poon, Tales of Ming Courtesans

“At places where protruding rocks blocked its flow, the river hissed, eddying in ripples and foams, and then wrested its way forward with renewed rigor. For a while Bumbutai stood still, enchanted by the struggling brook, her spirits lifted and were imbued with a refreshing sense of hope. Mother Earth's healing hand could always do wonders to a world-wearied soul.”
― Alice Poon, The Green Phoenix: A Novel of Empress Xiaozhuang, the Woman Who Re-Made Asia

“Please always remember you only live once. Nothing has meaning without life.”
― Alice Poon, The Heavenly Sword

“Totally agree! The fiction reading process is basically a human communication on an emotional, intellectual and spiritual level between reader and writer, transcending space, time, cultures, societies and religions, through the medium of the narrative and characters. Language matters in the sense of aesthetics and embellishment, but not in a rigid scientific way.”
― Alice Poon

“Yearning endlessly for that surreal rainbow was like addiction to opium. It was a poison pill, yet without it life would be all too vapid and bland.”
― Alice Poon, The Earthly Blaze

“You don't talk of playing fair to a bully. It's like playing qin music to a cow.”
― Alice Poon, The Earthly Blaze

“Time rushes forward and never back, oblivious of human joy or pain. We cannot but be driven by the tide of life.”
― Alice Poon, Tales of Ming Courtesans

“Courage is not daring. Courage is persistence when all that's left is hopelessness.”
― Alice Poon, The Earthly Blaze

“Those wielding absolute power seldom have the wisdom to relieve floods; all they know is how to dam them.”
― Alice Poon, The Earthly Blaze

“She was a seductive rose who didn't mind flaunting her deadly thorns. But that didn't change the petal-soft essence of her soul. It was this aching softness that he wanted so much to protect.”
― Alice Poon, The Heavenly Sword