Evan

“As I prepare to leave pages for Wei, I try to listen for his questions. I suspect that our lives have run in parallel, that the two halves of our story can never end without the other. At last, I think I hear him but he bears no questions and no answers. Instead, he tells me that because it is forever unfinished, we have sought each other in the faces of strangers, among the living and the dead, among the mothers and the fathers, and he tells me that his journey appears everywhere I look. Love, he tells me, like devotion, leaves everything unfinished.”
― Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records

“Love can excuse anything except meanness”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“I don’t know.” “You do know, but you won’t speak. All must be locked up in yourself.” “Because it is not worth sharing.” “Because nobody can give the high price you require for your confidence. Nobody is rich enough to purchase it. Nobody has the honour, the intellect, the power you demand in your adviser.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“Everything I know is aftermath.”
― Madeleine Thien, The Book of Records