Top 30 Best Eng Quotes

#1. I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.

Darin Strauss

Best Eng Quotes #42734
#2. There's the satisfaction of Eng-Lang-and-Lit; somebody else has said everything for you, and said it better.

Robertson Davies

Best Eng Quotes #98335
#3. One question remained to me. "If a higher level of bujutsu involves fighting with the mind, what then is the very highest level?" He closed his eyes for a while, seeing things he would never show me. "That," he said, "would be never to fight at all.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #101585
#4. Below these words was the garden's name in English: EVENING MISTS. I felt I was about to enter a place that existed only in the overlapping of air and water, light and time.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #101869
#5. We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #165806
#6. Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #187380
#7. I hope you make it through law school still feeling like you do.' 'Why wouldn't I?' I asked him. And he answered, 'Sometimes you start off going one way and you eng up going another way and you don't know how it happened.

Francisco X Stork

Best Eng Quotes #219216
#8. The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #272889
#9. 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

Best Eng Quotes #379669
#10. Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #397823
#11. Was this part of the process of growing up, that we finally noticed the people closest to us in a different, clearer light?

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #419732
#12. Some element in the air between us changed, as though a wind that had been blowing gently had come to an abrupt stillness.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #420493
#13. There are some people...who might feel that such practices are misguided, like trying to wield heaven's powers on earth. And yet it was only in the carefully planned and created garden of Yugiri that I had found a sense of order and calm and even, for a brief moment of time, forgetfulness.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #453454
#14. A garden is composed of a variety of clocks, Aritomo had once told me. Some of them run faster than the others, and some of them move slower than wee can ever perceive. I only understood this fully long after I had been his apprentice.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #505301
#15. On a mountain above the clouds once lived a man who had been the gardener of the emperor of Japan.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #564616
#16. mountaineering offers you a chance to learn about yourself by venturing beyond the confines of the modern world.

Ron Eng

Best Eng Quotes #808017
#17. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #864078
#18. Time seems to overlap, like the shadows of leave pressing down on other leave, layer upon layer.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #865272
#19. You ever wonder why an East Eng girl like me hasn't got much in the way of family? Well here's the reasons Petra. World War 1. World War 2. Falklands War. Gulf War 1. Gulf War 2 and the War on Drugs. You can take your pick because I've lost whole bloody chunks of my family in all of them.

Chris Cleave

Best Eng Quotes #879828
#20. It begins to rain softly, raising goose-pimples on the pond's skin.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #920111
#21. Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #921134
#22. The young have hopes and dreams, while the old hold the remains of them in their hands and wonder what has happened to their lives.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #948757
#23. Yes, I could say that I had lived my life, if not to the full then at least almost to the brim. What more could one ask? Rare is the person whose life overflows.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #954746
#24. Time did not exist; I had no idea of how many minutes had passed. And what was time but merely a wind that never stopped?

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #991784
#25. Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.

David Ebershoff

Best Eng Quotes #1029801
#26. Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #1083906
#27. Feel your body expanding as you breathe: that is where we live, in the moments between each inhalation and exhalation.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #1141243
#28. The mountains are as I have always remembered them, the first light of the morning melting down their flanks.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #1145400
#29. I had loaded another weight onto his suffering and it hurt me to understand that while one person can never really share the pain of another, they can so easily and so heedlessly add to it.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #1153012
#30. Enlightenment, it is a moment of complete clarity, of pure bliss. At that instant everything will be revealed to you.

Tan Twan Eng

Best Eng Quotes #1167808

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