Xiao Li Quotes

#1. After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

Victor Robert Lee

#2. And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny.

Victor Robert Lee

#3. In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

J.B. Priestley

#4. What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?

Victor Robert Lee

#5. The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Confucius

#6. The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating.

Dan Chaon

#7. There are a lot of things money can't buy. Not one of them is on my son's list.

Milton Berle

#8. Remember also that scars of all sorts are all right. Scars are wounds that have healed, not without a trace, but have healed nonetheless. Think of all the scar tissue around Christ's heart, Jesus our wounded healer.

William Sloane Coffin

#9. Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead.

Lessman, Julie

#10. She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.

Victor Robert Lee

#11. She yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.

Christopher Golden

#12. How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

Malcolm Lowry