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> [Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tan-twan-eng/time-is-eating-away-my-memory-time-and-this-illness-this-trespasser/)

[Tan Twan Eng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tan-twan-eng/)

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## 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/)

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