The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

by F.C. Yee

“A hand either opens or closes. But it can’t do either of those twice in a row.”

“Humility isn’t more important than the truth.

There is no use to the Spirit World, and therein lies the great lesson. Here, you don’t take. You don’t anticipate or plan; you don’t struggle. You don’t worry about value gained and lost. You just exist. Like a spirit.”

Let a problem last for too long and people begin to believe it’s not a problem.”

“A mountain is more than its peak,” Yangchen said. “We cannot declare true prosperity from looking at only a handful of accounts. No tower can stand on a mire of suffering.”

There is a direct chain of events between excessive desires in the present and widespread pain in the future.”

The exercise was ultimately futile against the power of time but still worth pursuing. Like most things in life.

“He posits human beings are but surfaces, points of contact that don’t exist unless we interact with others and the world around us. The only space in which a road and a wheel become relevant is the infinitely thin, ever-changing stripe where they touch. Together, the cart rolls.”

trunks. She could hear chittering insects and screaming birds. The smell of life was also the smell of decay, overwhelming rot and fertility attacking through her nose.

The second guy hunched over and held his forearms crossed in front of his face, hoping his toughness and bulk would protect him. But brawlers went high. Wrestlers went low.