Tan Twan Eng Quotes

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• Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be.
• Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.
• A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.
• For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.
• Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.
• 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…
• The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man
• Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift…
• I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with…
• To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.
• 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…

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