A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Quotes

“I can speak these words and perhaps you can see these things clearly because you are using your imagination. But I cannot imagine these things because I lived them, and to remember them with the vividness I know they should have is impossible. They are lost to me.”
― Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

“The little things gather for a long time, but one morning you look in the mirror and you understand them in a flash.”
― Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

“The Hòa Hào believes that the maintenance of our spirits is very simple, and the mystery of joy is simple, too. The four characters mean “A good scent from a strange mountain.”
― Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

“They are in the shapes of dragons and unicorns and stars and boats and horses and hares and toads. We light candles inside them and we swing them on sticks in the dark and the village is full of these wonderful pinwheels of light, the rushing of these bright shapes.”
― Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain