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“Day by day the blossoms fall, Year by year the people go. Where the dust blows through these heights, There once shone a silent sea.”
― Han-Shan, Cold Mountain 101 Chinese Poems Translated by Burton Watson

“Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“It begins, as most things begin, with a song.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Stories are webs, interconnected, strand to strand, and you follow each story to the centre, because the centre is the end. Each person is a strand of story.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys