Tiel

“Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“That point in time just as the last leaf is about to drop, as the remaining petal is about to fall; that moment captures everything beautiful and sorrowful about life. Mono no aware, the Japanese call it.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

“I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water's surface above me. Everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemists's dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me.”
― Nick Bantock, Sabine's Notebook