Azita Rassi

“Bats are flooding out from the hundreds of caves that perforate these mountainsides. I watch them plunge into the mists without any hesitation, trusting in the echoes and silences in which they fly. Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analyzing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

“If Strunk and White's The Elements of Style and Stephen King's On Writing had a baby, this would be it.”
― Ann Handley, Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content

“The crucial driver of evolution, Darwin understood, was not nature’s sense of purpose, but her sense of humor).”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“I realize that there are fragments of my life that I do not want to lose, if only because I still have not found the knot to tie them up with.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists