Tan Twan Eng Quotes

• For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Memories, Past, Identity

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.

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  World, Irony, Accepting

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• To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.

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  Memories, Blessing, Reservations

  Tan Twan Eng (2009). “The Gift of Rain”, p.69, Weinstein Books

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• Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.

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  Memories, Fall, Clouds

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• Me he convertido en una estrella que se derrumba, arrastrando todo a su alrededor, incluso la luz, hacia un vacío cada vez mayor. Cuando pierda toda capacidad de comunicarme con el mundo exterior, sólo me quedará lo que recuerdo. Mis recuerdos serán como un banco de arena, separado de la orilla por la marea. Con el tiempo, quedarán sumergidos, inaccesibles para mí. La perspectiva me aterroriza. ¿Qué es una persona sin recuerdos? Un fantasma, atrapado entre mundos, sin identidad, sin futuro ni pasado.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Estrellas, Recuerdos, Corte

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.

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  People, World, Moments

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• Los recuerdos que había guardado bajo llave han empezado a desprenderse, como fragmentos de hielo que se desprenden de una plataforma ártica. En el sueño, estos témpanos rotos van a la deriva hacia la luz matinal del recuerdo.

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  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books

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• A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.

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  Taken, Years, Sides

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.81, Canongate Books

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• Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.

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  Memories, Brain, Eating

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• Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.

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  Who I Am, Remember, Used

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.142, Canongate Books

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• The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man

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  Memories, Men, Ink

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.122, Canongate Books

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