Yan Lianke Quotes

#1. Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

Vance Havner

#2. I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#3. We all struggle only to make tomorrow.

R.Gayan Priyankara

#4. I smile bitterly. "Let's not forget who killed her. You destroy all that you touch."
"Well," he whispers back, returning my smile. "Then we have much in common.

Marie Lu

#5. The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take 'nothing' and imagine 'something' from 'nothing.' And that is God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

Tom Paulin

#7. For complexity does not inevitably heighten a story's verisimilitude, or its power to convince; sometimes simplicity and economy make for a more vigorous exposition, propelling the drama forward.

Yan Lianke