East Wind Quotes

“This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

“As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has the strength of both his parents, he will understand both worlds, and so overcome.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

“Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

“Through these seventeen years of your life I have had this hour of your marriage in mind. In everything I have taught you I have considered two persons, the mother of your husband and your husband. For her sake I have taught you how to prepare and to present tea to an elder; how to stand in an elder’s presence; how to listen in silence while an elder speaks whether in praise or blame; in all things I have taught you to submit yourself as a flower submits to sun and rain alike. “For your husband I have taught you how to decorate your person, how to speak to him with eyes and expression but without words, how to—but these things you will understand when the hour comes and you are alone with him.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

“Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l'infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind

“I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country’s good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

“But I am fearful of it because I hear she is learned in the Four Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

“¿Cómo podían conocer los médicos extranjeros las enfermedades de una mujer china? Quizá entiendan las enfermedades de los bárbaros, pero no las de los refinados y cultos chinos...”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind

“— Mi señor, ¿has visto el amanecer esta mañana? Se hubiera dicho que la tierra saltaba al encuentro del sol. Al principio, todo era oscuridad; luego surgió la luz como una nota musical. Mi señor, yo soy tu pobre tierra, que espera.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind

“Come possono quei rozzi stampi che sono le parole contenere l'essenza e lo spirito dell'amore?”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind

“This foreign one has no fear of anything in her, although she is not beautiful as the Fourth Lady was beautiful. She does not trouble herself. She accepts as her right the interest of men. She makes no effort to win their glances. She seems to say, “This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

“The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

“she returned full of talk about the streets, wondering at sights which others would not notice and seeing beauty in strange places.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family

“On croirait qu'il y a en elle deux personnes : l'une silencieuse, lointaine, même un peu taciturne, l'autre très gaie, mais d'une gaieté trop forcée pour être de la vraie joie.”
― Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind