Jeremy Tiang Quotes

“I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.”
― You Jin, In Time, Out of Place

“The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a “soundless music”. It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.”
― You Jin, In Time, Out of Place

“Many years later, Sophia will think of this night, and how close she was to tears. She will wonder how she could have allowed herself to arrive there, but also feel a twinge of loss for the girl still capable of losing control.”
― Jeremy Tiang, It Never Rains on National Day

“She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.”
― Jeremy Tiang, It Never Rains on National Day

“I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.”
― You Jin, Death by Perfume

“Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.

Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.

And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.”
― You Jin, Death by Perfume