A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing Quotes

“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

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