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“If we want to write shit poems about Hong Kong, then let us write shit poems about Hong Kong. If I want to exploit my pain, then let me exploit it until my heart can no longer take it.”
― The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
― The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
“With wealth comes power. Power earns you importance. And the truly important people in the world deserve to live longer than those beneath them. That's especially true as we face another epidemic.”
― Lock Every Door
― Lock Every Door
“Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Look closer at this street corner: The sun is setting. The vendor at the newspaper stand packs up the dailies and puts away the cartons of eggs. Students with laptops in their arms shuffle out of the cha chaan teng. Elderly couples and their poodles take a stroll by the pier. You can still hear the uproar of the crowds that once gathered on the steep slopes for film screenings, festivals, protests. The florists at the wet market put away the last lilies. The last tram slots itself into the station. And then the scene dissolves again. Maybe you can’t save this place; maybe it isn’t even worth saving. But for a moment, there was a sliver of what this city could have become. And that is why we’re still here.”
― The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
― The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
“Think. That's what will get me out of this mess. Not panicking. Panic only breeds more panic.”
― Lock Every Door
― Lock Every Door
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