Dorothy Tse > Quotes

“Everyone in the whole world is attached to everyone else by an invisible thread. When someone throws themselves off a roof, even if we’re fast asleep, it pulls the rest of us a little off balance.”
― Dorothy Tse, City Like Water

“Lately, he seemed to have been sleeping for increasingly extended periods. He would fall silent during meals, his head bowed as though intently contemplating the cauliflower florets in his soup, and she would know that he was sound asleep. In those moments he looked meek an innocent, and she clung to the sad yet at the same time consoling thought that andropause had come for him. Old age was nigh.”
― Dorothy Tse, Owlish