Yangsze Quotes

#1. Qing Ming, the festival of the dead,

Yangsze Choo

#2. If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better.

Yangsze Choo

#3. For when the cycle of violence escapes its confines in hell, it causes earthquakes, floods, and other calamities.

Yangsze Choo

#4. Women had little security other than jewelry, so even the poorest among us sported gold chains, earrings, and rings as their insurance.

Yangsze Choo

#5. Maybe paint-thinner is the key to ambition.

Daniel Fritz

#6. You want promises of success, assurances that all will be well? I don't do that. Ask your amah here. That's why I'm the real deal.

Yangsze Choo

#7. Amah was always wary of voicing misfortunes, fearing that to do so would only make them come true.

Yangsze Choo

#8. It was strange to think that power in this world belonged to old men and young women.

Yangsze Choo

#9. My goal was bigger than revenge. My purpose greater than personal retribution.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. We Chinese did not like to give or receive certain gifts for superstitious reasons: knives, because they could sever a relationship; handkerchiefs, for they portended weeping; and clocks, as they were thought to measure out the days of your life.

Yangsze Choo

#11. We are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word.. Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.

John Assaraf

#12. I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Neneh Cherry

#13. I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.

Carla Bruni

#14. I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

Matt Groening

#15. The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful.

Yangsze Choo

#16. The hours, days, and years that had bled away in his opium haze demanded a payment from my future.

Yangsze Choo

#17. I don't keep mistresses; it's far too much trouble. I'm offering to marry you, although I might regret it. And if you think the Lim family disapproved of your marriage, wait until you meet mine.

Yangsze Choo

#18. So many young people think the big sex act is the whole movie, but that's not the case. You need to be able to talk and laugh and cry together.

Don Rickles

#19. The problem with the dead was that they all wanted someone to listen to them.

Yangsze Choo

#20. Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway,

#21. It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures we had acquired one another's superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts.

Yangsze Choo

#22. There is no "I" in "Team," but there is an "E" for "Everyone." A team achieves more when everyone contributes.

Robert Cheeke

#23. Was this love? It was like a consuming flame, licking through my defenses at a slow burn.

Yangsze Choo

#24. In the darkness of a thousand
withered souls, it was Er Lang's hand that I
sought, and his voice that I longed to hear. Perhaps
it is selfish of me, but an uncertain future
with him, in all its laughter and quarrels, is better
than being left behind.

Yangsze Choo

#25. Confucius, who had said it was better not to know about ghosts and gods, but rather to focus on the world we lived in.

Yangsze Choo

#26. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

Anne Lamott

#27. I stretch and do my squats when I brush my teeth.

Michelle Yeoh