Jan Yip

“Listen, life is short… Choose to be with the people who really choose you, people who see you as irreplaceable.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“He said things were going from bad to worse and he was quite right, of course . . . but it doesn't help to be miserable; it doesn't make things right to keep on grieving over them. It clouds the sun, that's all.”
― D.E. Stevenson, Vittoria Cottage

“Maybe the reason my uncle was always clowning around in front of people was to hide what he was feeling from them. The effort must have been excruciating. To look at him, they’d never realize what he felt inside . . . The thought of it made my heart ache.”
― Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“James still thought of Rhoda, though perhaps not quite so constantly as before. She was as far out of reach as the moon, and how foolish it was to keep crying for the moon!”
― D.E. Stevenson, Music in the Hills