“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
― Anchee Min, quote from Empress Orchid
“I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.”
― Anchee Min, quote from Empress Orchid
“Prezirem ljude koji se svijaju kako vjetar puše.”
― Anchee Min, quote from Empress Orchid
“Like a singing river
You break out to flow freely
I am the mountain behind
Happily I watch you
Memory of us
Full and sweet”
― Anchee Min, quote from Empress Orchid
“Mother once told me that one had to lower one's head when passing under low eaves in order to avoid injury.”
― Anchee Min, quote from Empress Orchid
“Vjetar pokazuje svoje tijelo kroz drhtavo lišće.”
― Anchee Min, quote from Empress Orchid
“Zabranjeni grad je pjesma u svojem najčistijem obliku. On je moj duhovni vrt gdje mogu leći među cvijeće i otpočinuti.”
― Anchee Min, quote from Empress Orchid
Anchee Min
Born place: in Shanghai, China
Born date January 14, 1957
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“Courtiers were supposed to sound musical when they spoke, their laughter like a harp chord and their sneezes like notes on a flute,”
― Sarah Beth Durst, quote from The Queen of Blood
“There’s not a lot you can control, you know. Where you’re born. Who your family is. What people want from you, and what you are, underneath it all. When you have so little say in it all, I think it’s important to exercise a measure of control when given the opportunity.” She smiled, ducking her head. “So I blow things up.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, quote from The Last of August
“كان هنالك شعورٌ غامض يهمس لي بأنك إذا رأيت أحدًا -كائنًا من كان- على حقيقته، ولم تخفِ ما رأيته عن نفسك فلم تستطيع الإقتراب منه مجددًا. لكنني لم أرد أن أكون أحد محبي الحقيقة. كنت مدركًا بأنني لن أتحمل أي حقيقة قد تبعدني عنها. بعد عثورنا على أهم وأغلى الأشياء الموجودة فينا من أجل أرواحناـ أليس تجاهل التفاصيل، أو بتعبير أصح، التضحية بالحقائق الصغيرة من أجل الحقيقة الكبرى أكثر إنسانية وإنصافًا؟ ... لم يكن بي حنق على أحد، ما كان يضايقني هو فقط شعوري بالوحدة، وبسبب تأثيرات هذه الوحدة فأنا مستعد لخداع نفسي في نقاط كثيرة تجاه الإنسان الذي أحسست بالقرب منه.”
― Sabahattin Ali, quote from Madonna in a Fur Coat
“You think in the same way men drink, Tea,” my father once said, “far too much—under the delusion it is too little.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“Fortune favors the bold," he said. "But she'll only fall for a bloke who's got an ace up his sleeve.”
― Courtney Alameda, quote from Shutter
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