Melissa Addey > Quotes

“I searched and searched but each time I thought I had found something to feed on it was only an empty bowl and my hunger grew greater.”
― Melissa Addey, The Forbidden City Series

“I was a hungry ghost,” I tell Niu Lang. “I wanted what I had lost and I did not know how to find it. I searched and searched but each time I thought I had found something to feed on it was only an empty bowl and my hunger grew greater.”
― Melissa Addey, The Forbidden City Series

“It does not matter what name we give to God. In matters only that we share his wisdom and the blessing of knowledge he has given us, whatever name we in our mortal ignorance have given him.”
― Melissa Addey, Do Not Awaken Love

“Remember, my friends – all legends are true, even the ones that never happened. For in them we find ourselves.”
― Melissa Addey, The Fragrant Concubine

“No one can manage on their own,” he says, keeping his eyes on the bobbing dumplings. “Everyone needs a family. People to look out for you.”
― Melissa Addey, The Fragrant Concubine