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> [“Opening her handbag, she took out a small bottle of perfume and touched the stopper behind her ears. Its cool, glassy edge felt like her only point of contact with tangible reality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-chang/opening-her-handbag-she-took-out-a-small-bottle-of-perfume-and/)

[Eileen Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-chang/)

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## More by Eileen Chang

> [“Opening her handbag, she took out a small bottle of perfume and touched the stopper behind her ears. Its cool, glassy edge felt like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-chang/opening-her-handbag-she-took-out-a-small-bottle-of-perfume-and/)

[Eileen Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-chang/)

> [Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-chang/life-is-an-extravagant-gown-riddled-with-lice/)

[Eileen Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-chang/)

> [Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-chang/between-memory-and-reality-there-are-awkward-discrepancies/)

[Eileen Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-chang/)

> [“She wasn’t a bird in a cage. A bird in a cage, when the cage is opened, can still fly away. She was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-chang/she-wasn-t-a-bird-in-a-cage-a-bird-in-a-cage-when-the-cage-is-opened/)

[Eileen Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-chang/)

> [“In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eileen-chang/in-that-little-pocket-size-world-of-his-he-was-the-absolute-master/)

[Eileen Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eileen-chang/)

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