Qiu Xiaolong > Quotes

“If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.”
― Qiu Xiaolong

“Al fin y al cabo, un hombre es sólo lo que ha decidido hacer o no hacer.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“Tripes, poumons, coeur de porc, etc., tout cela cuit à la vapeur avec du vin de riz.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, The Mao Case

“El cielo o el infierno están en nuestra cabeza, no en las cosas materiales que poseemos.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“Mientras pensamos en el presente, se está convirtiendo en pasado.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“Un amico in un momento nero è un amico per davvero.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Shanghai Redemption

“No son las personas las que hacen las interpretaciones sino las interpretaciones las que hacen a las personas.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“Once again, Judge Dee wished he too could write a poem like hers, but he had reached an age, he told himself, when he could admit what was beyond him. So many years he had wasted playing politics, which, unlike poetry, would not survive him.”
― Xiaolong Qiu

“I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Enigma of China

“As Zhaungzi mused long”
― Qiu Xiaolong, The Mao Case

“A grain of rat dung may spoil a whole pot of white porridge.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, A Loyal Character Dancer

“If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn’t real.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“Among them, there was a glass bowl containing live shrimp immersed in white liquor. The drunken shrimp were still jumping, though less and less energetically.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Red Mandarin Dress

“Justice was like colored balls in a magician’s hand”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“According to our Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, people do not write well when they are happy. If you are content with life, you simply want to enjoy it.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, A Loyal Character Dancer

“«Una mujer se embellece para el hombre que sabe apreciarla».”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Seda roja

“My life began with you, and my future goes on with you—there’s nothing else.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, When Red Is Black

“According to Mao”
― Qiu Xiaolong, The Mao Case

“Heaven or hell is in one’s mind, not in the material things one has in the world,”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“History is like a mirror, capable of showing what a man really is”
― Qiu Xiaolong, When Red Is Black

“Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“En este mundo nuestro, ocho veces de cada diez las cosas no salen según se había previsto, pero, como reza otro antiguo proverbio, ¿quién sabe si es buena o mala fortuna que el anciano de Sai pierda su caballo?”
― Qiu Xiaolong, The Mao Case

“In the final analysis, the cops work for the Party system, and private investigators work for their clients. That’s why even the term ‘PI’ is still taboo in the official media.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Shanghai Redemption

“What are you reading?” “Visual Basics.” The answer did not fit the picture in his mind. But it should not be surprising, he thought. He, too, had been taking an evening class on Windows applications.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“Para Shen, un vestido no era un mero trozo de tela, sino una imagen llena de significados y de asociaciones.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Seda roja

“L'histoire n'était pas une tache de sauce soja aisément essuyée par une serviette rose dans la main d'une jolie jeune fille comme celle qui le conduisait à présent à sa table, près de la grande porte-fenêtre.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine

“Permítame que le haga una pregunta. ¿Qué convierte en buena una historia? –La credibilidad.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Seda roja

“A desperately sick man will seek help from any doctor.”
― Qiu Xiaolong, Shanghai Redemption

“407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.”
― Qiu Xiaolong