Fei

“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Ce qu'on ne transmet pas, ça se perd, c'est tout. Tu viens d'ici mais ce n'est pas chez toi.”
― Alice Zeniter, L'Art de perdre

“I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“Somehow, while we had all been busy, while we had been doing those small things that added up to living, the future had slipped into the present - and despite the fact that we had known that it would come, the overwhelming feeling, now that it was here, was of surprise, like waking up one morning to find that you had been young, and now all at once you weren't.”
― Jessie Greengrass, The High House