Vertical Motion Quotes

“The thing I love watching most is the swirling cotton candy. The contraption for making it is like a flat-bottomed pan. One puts sugar in it, turns the crank, and after a while, a large shimmering ball emerges; it’s like cotton—and like silk, too. Indeed, there’s nothing lovelier.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion

“To show my revulsion, I jumped on the tea table several times and pretended it was an accident when I knocked the phone off the hook so that there couldn’t be any incoming calls.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion

“The bird still didn’t move. Mrs. Yun thought it had discerned her deepest, innermost ideas. Actually, she herself didn’t know exactly what those ideas were.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion

“If you believed in something like this, it was true; if you didn’t believe in it, it wasn’t.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion

“The old woman finally went bankrupt. She had made so much money every day, how could she have gone bankrupt? I didn’t get it.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion

“After thoroughly inspecting his domicile, I, a cat of some breeding, chose the rug beneath the tea table as my bedroom.”
― Can Xue, Vertical Motion