Indelible City Quotes

“The legislature might be toothless, but street politics was not, so long as the numbers were large enough. The King of Kowloon might be dead, but his descendants increasingly wanted a government that saw with the eyes of the people and heard with their ears.”
― 林慕蓮(Louisa Lim), Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

“Create some cards, invent some situations. That’s what negotiation is for. You’ve got to think and produce some concrete results rather than rub your hands and say, “Very messy, very difficult. We have no cards to play.” ’ ”
― 林慕蓮(Louisa Lim), Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong