A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing Quotes

“One’s family is not a brief tempest but a lifetime of mist. A constant fog, whose wet texture of hurt would always be there.”
― Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

“Mao and His administration told us that the counterrevolutionaries were monsters and demons, and that made them inhuman, which made them killable. Most of us did not like our first act of violence. Some of us grew to like it; some of us never did. They shaped us into a blade, into a guillotine, and turned us loose against their enemies, but sometimes their enemies were our teacher mother father sister brother aunt uncle—”
― Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

“Do you know when you cut wrapping paper, and your scissors begin to glide like you’re slicing through nothing? ... Sometimes, you feel like that. Like scissors gliding through me that don’t stop.”
― Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

“One’s family is not a brief tempest but a lifetime of mist. A constant fog”
― Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

“Her mother tongue nearly forgotten, plastered in whiteness.”
― Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

“You can’t cultivate seer magic on joy.”
― Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

“Ba had hurt Ma. He had hurt her. He had hurt his mother”
― Alice Evelyn Yang, A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing