A Long and Speaking Silence Quotes

“In return, Little Meng, Sovann’s nephew, offered up the story of how he had seen a cat walking along the river last year, who was so white that she glowed in the dark. He’d called a dozen names after her, Pearl, Little Treasure, Eye in the Night, because in Feiyu, if you could guess a cat’s name, she would come home with you and live with you all her life.”
― Nghi Vo, A Long and Speaking Silence

“Easy’s just experience and practice and time put together until you don’t notice them any longer. One day, something you couldn’t dream of doing a year ago is something you can do without thought, and you think it must have always been that way, but that’s not true.”
― Nghi Vo, A Long and Speaking Silence

“She went back into the kitchen, and Chih turned to Almost Brilliant.
   "Stories that come from birds," they said. "Maybe not birds at all, but memory spirits that look like birds. Like you and Myriad Virtues and Cleverness Himself. Like Temperate Above All and Truly Patient. Maybe her grandmother knew a cleric, or even was a cleric. If the years line up, maybe—"
   Almost Brilliant gave Chih a stern look.
   "That is too many maybes, she said.”
― Nghi Vo, A Long and Speaking Silence

“A story can be long or short, happy or sad. All a story needs to do is to tell us something you know that you would like us to know.”
― Nghi Vo, A Long and Speaking Silence