Peach Blossom Spring Quotes

“Within every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so it goes, until the end of time”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Maybe that's what forgiveness is - accepting someone's actions, even if there are no good explanations.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“To tell a story is to plant a seed and let it grow.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Remember that to have an orchard is to honour the generations that came before and will come after.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“I’m glad we have a lifetime ahead of us so I can learn.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Finally, the older monk said, “Brother, I set that woman down on the other side of the river. Why are you still carrying her?” ’ Meilin takes her arm from Renshu’s shoulder and turns to face him. ‘Renshu, let’s not carry anything that we’ve already left behind.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“To tell a story, he realises, is to plant a seed and let it grow.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“To know a story is to stroke the silken surfaces of loss, to feel the weight of beauty in his hands. To know a story is to carry it always, etched in his bones, even if dormant for decades. Tell us, they insist.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“as if repetition was the same as explanation.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“The shadow of her loss is so overwhelming that she fears if she looked at it directly, it would engulf her.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Perhaps disappointment is the price of hope.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Over time, she realises that the more she learns about others' stories, the less she needs to pinpoint her own. Like the final stages of assembling a jigsaw, at some point, she no longer needs the missing pieces to be able to imagine the whole.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“We can forgive without understanding. Sometimes we must. Maybe that’s what forgiveness is – accepting someone’s actions, even if there are no good explanations.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“She’s always told Renshu that regret is too heavy to carry. And yet, it’s impossible to have complete conviction that you’ve made all the right decisions. No one is that lucky or that naive. Maybe, Meilin thinks, it’s that you have to carry your regrets until you’ve made peace with them. Only then can you lay them down.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“She was frightened, but she was also determined. These two feelings always go hand in hand.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Within every misfortune there is a blessing, and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune. And so it goes, until the end of time.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“What are you scared of?”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“She's always told Renshu that regret is too heavy to carry. And yet, it's impossible to have complete conviction that you've made all the right decisions. No one is that lucky or that naive. Maybe, [...] it's that you have to carry your regrets until you've made peace with them. Only then can yo lay them down.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“spicy crunch of fallen leaves.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Although the flames make the air shimmer, chills run down her arms. She won’t look back again.”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring

“Within every misfortune there is a blessing, and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune. And so it”
― Melissa Fu, Peach Blossom Spring