Written on Water Quotes

“When you meet the one among the millions, when amid millions of years, across the borderless wastes of time, you happen to catch him or her, neither a step too early nor a step too late, what else is there to do except to ask softly: "So you're here, too?”
― Eileen Chang, Written on Water

“And its wonder lies in brevity: by the time you start reading, it's already over, which only makes you ponder its meaning all the more.”
― Eileen Chang, Written on Water

“If she decides not to read a novel for a second time because she already knows the story, she'll never make a good wife. If all she cares about is novelty and has no interest in style or substance, once she's surveyed her husband's character and come to understand his weaknesses and peculiarities, she'll begin to find him oppressively dreary and fall out of love with him forever.”
― Eileen Chang, Written on Water

“When you meet the one among the millions, when amid millions of years, across the borderless wastes of time, you happen to catch him or her, neither a step too early nor a step too late, what else is there to do except to ask softly: So you're here, too?”
― Eileen Chang, Written on Water

“When you meet the one among the millions, when amid millions of years, across the borderless wastes of time, you happen to catch him or her, neither a step too early nor a step too late, what else is there to do except to ask softly: 'So you're here, too?”
― Eileen Chang, Written on Water