“For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.”
― Spring Snow
― Spring Snow
“They simply had to fill this terrifying emptiness–otherwise, their brains might start working. Thinking is painful business.”
― Sealed Off
― Sealed Off
“I want you to know there’s someone in this world who’s yours always. Please know that, forever and wherever. Yours, always”
― Half a Lifelong Romance
― Half a Lifelong Romance
“She wasn’t a bird in a cage. A bird in a cage, when the cage is opened, can still fly away. She was a bird embroidered onto a screen — a white bird in clouds of gold stitched onto a screen of melancholy satin. The years passed; the bird’s feathers darkened, mildewed, and were eaten by moths, but the bird stayed on the screen even in death.”
― Love in a Fallen City
― Love in a Fallen City
“I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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