A Hundred Flowers Quotes

“Wei cleared his throat and said, “Have you heard the saying `The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher’? It seems I’ve been the pitcher most of my life. I’ve forgotten how to be fluid. It feels as if I’m finally learning now,” he said.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, A Hundred Flowers

“You don’t need to ask for forgiveness for writing the truth.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, A Hundred Flowers

“A tree can’t see or hear,' Tao said. His grandfather looked down at him and smiled. 'How do you know? It’s a living thing. Just because it doesn’t have eyes and ears the way we do, how can we know it doesn’t feel things in other ways?”
― Gail Tsukiyama, A Hundred Flowers

“Kai Ying knew that being "reeducated" was like falling down a black hole. Some were never seen again, while others returned defeated, deadened by the experience of hard labor, illness, and starvation. She willed for him to hold on, to return to them. She didn't allow herself to think of what they were going to do if Sheng never returned, if she never heard his voice or felt his touch again.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, A Hundred Flowers

“But he also remembered the beauty and intellectual curiosity of a country that could have easily caught up with the rest of the world, if she weren't always being dragged backward.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, A Hundred Flowers

“She marveled at nature's resiliency, its sheer stubbornness to survive.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, A Hundred Flowers