Wednesday's Child Quotes

“mother: “I am sure that if you had been told when you were a child about all the things that you were going to have to do, you would have thought you had better die at once, you would not have believed you could ever have the strength to do them.”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories

“Indeed, why the hurry to get in front of a moving train?”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories

“There are two types of mothers: those who have not taught their children to be kind to themselves, and those who have not learned to be kind to their children.”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories

“The saving grace, Rosalie thought, is that not all pains and not all worries are permanent. Some, time-sensitive, can be desensitized by time. How else could a parent, or anyone, go on living courageously?”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories

“civilization: tears shed for a fictional spider and a
fictional pig, rather than for a child who nearly got slaughtered like a pig”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories

“never argue with the dead.”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories

“If the world had a mind to harm it would do so the prepared and unprepared equally”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories