Vagabonds Quotes

“She was eleven at the time when Ronen said these things to her, and they fell into her heart like seeds...His life was a bright flash that had illuminated a child's heart.”
― Hao Jingfang, Vagabonds

“Nimble, speedy warplanes then rushed in, propelled across the gulf of space by the rage of betrayal, at once wild and dispassionate, dropped their bombs so that bloody flowers bloomed silently in the dust.”
― Hao Jingfang, Vagabonds

“It was always the habit of people who had never gone anywhere to invent outrageous stories about faraway places, to gain the self-satisfaction of an imaginary civilized person through manufactured fantasies of barbarism.”
― Hao Jingfang, Vagabonds

“Such a life of uncertainty entranced her. It was such a contrast to the life in the platonic garden of idealized creation that she had grown up in. The two collided like air masses in her heart, and a tempestuous storm was the result.”
― Hao Jingfang, Vagabonds