Paul’s Reviews > The Spear Cuts Through Water > Status Update

“The body holds the body.
The arms hold the spear.
And the spear cuts through water.”

“Judge not the parent who keeps silent to their child's cry. There are too many reasons in heaven and earth to disappoint the ones we care for.”

“It was an old lesson that everyone in the old village knew: You can fault the dancer, but more often than not, it is the dance itself that has to change.”

“I have lived a long time. And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world.”

“Then I am a fool. But I will be a fool who holds his oaths.”

This book has won me over. It’s so good so far.

It’s very different from anything else I’ve read. In a good way.