Bangkok Wakes to Rain Quotes

“The most deafening thing he’s ever heard is the silence between two people.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“Truth lingers, unseen like phantoms but there to rattle and scream wherever people try hardest to forget.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“I swallowed, not knowing what I drank, medicine or poison; I only knew that I was thirsty. With every drop, I drew in the spirit of oxen and snakes, great jungle beasts ran inside me, growling. I tasted dirt and rubies and thousands of years of rain.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“I’m being rowed out to attend to a patient, for whom I shall feign practical confidence, even as I wander, bewildered in the great mystery of this earthly place, because each poor soul I encounter, I’ve come to know, is also my own. The lifelong accumulation of their hours; their betrayals, blindness, and failings; their genius and heart: mine, too. I shall come to God through their eyes.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“In Thai, to say sorry was to ask for punishment that wouldn't ordinarily be meted out.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“Pig owes her much more than she could ever pay back. It had felt much less burdensome to feel like she would always be the one to so generously give.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“To be touched by Grace, a soul must not fear enduring harm.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“growling. I tasted dirt and rubies and thousands of years of rain.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“Sometimes she wants to believe that if she says a name so many times, anyone can be brought back to life.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

“With age comes either extreme faith or extreme doubt. Usually both.”
― Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Bangkok Wakes to Rain