Books Quote by Madeleine Thien

“She wanted to tell them that whatever happened, whatever they chose, one day they would have to come awake, everyone would have to stand…

— Madeleine Thien

“What mattered was the here and now and not the life before, what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow and not…

— Madeleine Thien

“Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the…

— Madeleine Thien

“The things you experience," she continued, "are written on your cells as memories and patterns, which are reprinted again on the next generation. And…

— Madeleine Thien

“IN THOSE DAYS, your village might change hands every few weeks, one day to the Communists, the next to the Nationalists, the next to…

— Madeleine Thien

“Tomorrow begins from another dawn, when we will be fast asleep.”

— Madeleine Thien

“He kisses her, and she knows, somehow, that he is asking for help, for an end to the sadness they are causing one another.…

— Madeleine Thien

“If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to…

— Madeleine Thien

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“She saw a soldier strike a boy ahead of her with his baton. Behind him, a girl turned and spat in the soldier’s face.…

— Madeleine Thien

I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.

— Madeleine Thien

“How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or…

— Madeleine Thien