--- title: "1 Folded Quotes By Tan Twan Eng" description: "1 Folded quotes by Tan Twan Eng. Plus more from Tan Twan Eng and more Folded sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83c/tan-twan-eng-21022_blank-page_as-though-to-fortify-me-she-took-the-let_2009386.png" --- > [“As though to fortify me she took the letter out and placed it on the table between us. Its pages were folded, yellowed like old skin, the faint tattoo of aged ink that had seeped onto the blank side visible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/as-though-to-fortify-me-she-took-the-letter-out-and-placed-it-on-the/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83c/tan-twan-eng-21022_blank-page_as-though-to-fortify-me-she-took-the-let_2009386.png) ## Other authors on Folded ## More by Tan Twan Eng > [“Puddles of rainwater glowed like the discarded scales of a dragon.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/puddles-of-rainwater-glowed-like-the-discarded-scales-of-a-dragon/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/memory-is-like-patches-of-sunlight-in-an-overcast-valley-shifting/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“She saw the stubborn set of my face. "I've never felt blessed," I said. "There must be free will to choose. Do you know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/she-saw-the-stubborn-set-of-my-face-i-ve-never-felt-blessed-i-said/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“none of my children—not one—ever took the easy road; that they strove to keep sanity, reason, and compassion alive and burning in these tragic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/none-of-my-children-not-one-ever-took-the-easy-road-that-they-strove/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“A garden is composed of a variety of clocks, Aritomo had once told me. Some of them run faster than the others, and some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/a-garden-is-composed-of-a-variety-of-clocks-aritomo-had-once-told-me/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“Anything beautiful should be given a name, do you not agree?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/anything-beautiful-should-be-given-a-name-do-you-not-agree/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/memories-i-had-locked-away-have-begun-to-break-free-like-shards-of/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“As with all the principles of aikijutsu, you do not meet the force of the strike head-on. You parry, you step to the side…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/as-with-all-the-principles-of-aikijutsu-you-do-not-meet-the-force-of/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“The mountains are as I have always remembered them, the first light of the morning melting down their flanks.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/the-mountains-are-as-i-have-always-remembered-them-the-first-light-of/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“Time seems to overlap, like the shadows of leave pressing down on other leave, layer upon layer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/time-seems-to-overlap-like-the-shadows-of-leave-pressing-down-on/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“Before me lies a voyage of a million miles, and my memory is the moonlight I will borrow to illuminate my way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/before-me-lies-a-voyage-of-a-million-miles-and-my-memory-is-the/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/the-palest-ink-will-endure-beyond-the-memories-of-man/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“Some element in the air between us changed, as though a wind that had been blowing gently had come to an abrupt stillness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/some-element-in-the-air-between-us-changed-as-though-a-wind-that-had/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/die-while-i-can-still-remember-who-i-am-who-i-used-to-be/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) > [“It is getting dark. In the low mists over the hills, an orange glow broods, as if the trees are on fire. Bats are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/it-is-getting-dark-in-the-low-mists-over-the-hills-an-orange-glow/) [Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/folded/tan-twan-eng/#itemlist", "name": "1 Folded Quotes By Tan Twan Eng", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As though to fortify me she took the letter out and placed it on the table between us. Its pages were folded, yellowed like old skin, the faint tattoo of aged ink that had seeped onto the blank side visible to me. Just like me, I thought, looking at the letter. 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