French Concession Quotes

“Sometimes I think a woman is like a lock, and a man like a key. There’s only one that fits every gear and groove of your lock. It’s not just a question of common interests or strong emotions. It’s like you’ve always known each other. Even your bodies fit together. His is the right key, and it fits my lock exactly.”
― Bai Xiao, French Concession

“But reminding herself that it was all fated forced her to stop daydreaming and focus, like a despairing man who finds something trivial to obsess over, or the musicians on a sinking ship who spend the final hours of their lives picking apart a complex harmonic passage. She”
― Bai Xiao, French Concession

“Perhaps because the Concession was something of a floating city, rootless, without a past and with no guarantee of a future, it functioned like a huge vat of dye that tinted all its characters with the quality of timelessness, which turned them into legends. But”
― Bai Xiao, French Concession