Shan Sa Quotes

• La luna en toda su inmaculada pureza colgaba del cielo, riéndose de este mundo de polvo. Me felicitó por mis cuidadas maniobras y me invitó a compartir su eterna soledad.

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  Moon, Dust, Sky

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• Lunas interminables, un universo opaco, truenos, tornados, la tierra temblorosa. Raros momentos de paz; la frente contra las rodillas, los brazos alrededor de la cabeza, pensaba, escuchaba, anhelaba no existir. pero la vida estaba ahí, una perla transparente, una estrella girando lentamente sobre su propio eje.

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  Estrellas, Luna, Ejes

  Shan Sa (2009). “Empress: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

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  Pain, Games, Battle

  "The Girl Who Played Go: A Novel". Book by Shan Sa, www.washingtonpost.com. 2007.

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• I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

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  Heart, Play, Desire

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• Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there. Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.

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  Pain, Sleep, Eye

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• I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

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  Athens, Philosopher, Ancient

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• Politicians are better liars than writers.

  Shan Sa

  Liars, Politician

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• I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

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  Animal, Interesting Conversation, Weather

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• I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

  Shan Sa

  Mirrors, Ice, Water

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• would you dare to love me?

  Shan Sa

  Atrévete

  "Empress: A Novel". Book by Shan Sa, October 6, 2009.

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• Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

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  Twilight, Years, Childhood

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• En el mundo cerrado del gineceo, a pesar de los jardines y parques que se extendían más allá del horizonte, a pesar de los muros infranqueables que separaban pabellones y palacios, la enmarañada red de nuestro destino era ineludible. ¿Por qué estas mujeres se amaban hasta la locura? ¿Por qué se aborrecían con tanta vehemencia, y por qué enemigos acérrimos sentían tal horror y fascinación el uno por el otro? Porque el amor y el odio eran las dos cabezas del demonio.

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  Wall, Hate, Fate

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• To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

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  War, Clothes, Choices

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• Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

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  Hero, Conquer, Mortals

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• Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle . . .

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  Running, Fate, Tree

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• I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

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  Regret, Lying, Sadness

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• I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

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  Long, Too Much, Feels

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• I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

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  Revenge, Secret, Untimely Death

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• Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

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  Dust, Soldier, Earth

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