Unrest Quotes

“I stored up my old grudges like family heirlooms. Was this too petty? Let me tell you, hatred and resentment are built up like this, fragment by fragment. As soon as a crack appears, it all comes surging out and sweeps you up in the flood.”
― Yeng Pway Ngon, Unrest

“So you're coming back? Thank you." And Daming's despondent face, like a lamp, burst into radiance.”
― Yeng Pway Ngon, Unrest

“He was never more than an armchair philosopher, unwilling to deal with the real world. He was happy to live in a capitalist society replete with material wealth, experiencing its decadence and wickedness whilst expounding on the glories of communism, but he would never dream of putting himself through the deprivation of living in an actual communist country.”
― Yeng Pway Ngon, Unrest

“The one who wishes to possess is inevitably controlled by the object of desire. He fears losing you. But a person isn't an object. You can only love a person, not own her.”
― Yeng Pway Ngon, Unrest