Bent Quote by Tan Twan Eng

“Puddles of rainwater glowed like the discarded scales of a dragon.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tan Twan Eng

“Anything beautiful should be given a name, do you not agree?”

— 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…

— 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…

— Tan Twan Eng

“The mountains are as I have always remembered them, the first light of the morning melting down their flanks.”

— Tan Twan Eng

“Time seems to overlap, like the shadows of leave pressing down on other leave, layer upon layer.”

— 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.”

— Tan Twan Eng

The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man

— Tan Twan Eng