19 Quotes by Xinran

Uma família sem sentimentos ou sentimentos sem uma família. As condições de vida obrigam os jovens a fazer do emprego e da habitação os principais pré-requisitos para o casamento. Seus pais, que viveram a turbulência das mudanças políticas, fizeram da segurança e da estabilidade os alicerces sobre os quais uma família deve ser construída.

Writing is a kind of repository and can help create a space for the accommodation of new thoughts and feelings. If you don't write these stories down, your heart will be filled up and broken by them.

When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is different every time.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

This generation possessed freedom and material wealth their elders could only dream of, and they looked for the miracle of love in the void between Chinese and Western culture. They created idealised versions of themselves on the internet, and pushed the boundaries of what they thought love could be. But as this generation grew accustomed to the loneliness of living without brothers and sisters, the family could no longer be considered the backbone of Chinese culture.

Guardei o segredo da Catadora de Lixo e nunca contei ao filho que ela passara um longo tempo acompanhando seus movimentos. Mas nunca mais fui à casa dele, pois a Catadora de Lixo, cuja memória eu prezo muito, nunca atravessou sequer a soleira daquela casa. Embora ele parecesse tão abastado, ela é que era realmente rica.

Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity.

Life starts in nature and returns to nature.