10 Quotes by C Pam Zhang

Burial is just another recipe

Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars.

What real riches are? I could spend this gold tomorrow and it would belong to someone else. No. I want us rich in choices, that’s something noone can take.

Too often truth ain’t in what’s right, Lucy girl – sometimes it’s in who speaks it. Or writes it.

That feeling of knowing someone will call your name – that’s the feeling I got when your ma met my eyes. I knew I was almost home.

I don’t see how you can claim to own a place and treat it so poor, there are methods of getting what you want without tearing at the land like a pack of wild dogs.

Young enough to think desire alone shapes the world.

And wasn’t that the real reason for traveling, a reason bigger than poorness and desperation and greed and fury – didn’t they know, low in their bones, that as long as they moved and the land unfurled, that as long as they searched, they would forever be searchers and never quite lost?

Burial is just another recipe.