“You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this island. It is like rain, like the heart of a woman.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“The time has come. I really feel I must relinquish my former identity. I have to try to make a change, or I will… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“It's kind of elusive, whatever it is that's communicated through the skin. It's hard to describe, but you know it when you feel it.… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“ll life must feel pain in the face of death. To live without ain is to live without dignity.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“A story can take children places they've never been before and tell them about things that happened to folks even older than their elders.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“Going through a mountain to get from place to place as quickly as possible is one way of life, while going around is another.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“Each piece of trash that floated here seems to have brought a story with it across the sea, because anything that's been thrown away… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes death is payback. At other times, it's just farewell, not owing anyone anything.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“..only if you go to places nobody's ever been can you see the colours nobody's ever seen.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“Perhaps because I don't think he can completely understand me, I often feel like talking to him.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things haven't gone away, it's just that we can't see them.” — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
“You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
