Yuan Lin

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai