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41 " What made it worse was that we could never truly share such burdens with even those closest to us. In the end, the mistakes were our own, the consequences to be borne by us alone. "
― Tan Twan Eng , The Gift of Rain
42 " In return for surrendering to the throw, you are given the gift of flight,’ he said. "
43 " When you are lost, in this world or on the continent of time itself, remember who you have been and you will know who you are. These people were all you, and you are them. I was you before you were born and you will be me after I am gone. That is the meaning of family.” He "
44 " I am certain it has never been easy, growing up as a child of mixed parentage in this place. But that is your strength. Accept the fact that you are different, that you are of two worlds. And I wish you to remember this when you feel you cannot go on: you are used to the duality of life. You have the ability to bring all of life's disparate elements into a cohesive whole. So use it "
45 " Anger and sorrow walked with me, joining hands with guilt, the three walls of my prison. "
46 " Yes, I could say that I had lived my life, if not to the full then at least almost to the brim. What more could one ask? Rare is the person whose life overflows. "
47 " Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain. "
― Tan Twan Eng , The Garden of Evening Mists
48 " I was you before you were born and you will be me after I am gone. That is the meaning of family. "
49 " The practice of designing gardens had originated in the temples of China, where the work was done by monks. Gardens were created to approximate the idea of a paradise in the afterlife. "
50 " while one person can never really share the pain of another, they can so easily and so heedlessly add to it. "
51 " Enlightenment, it is a moment of complete clarity, of pure bliss. At that instant everything will be revealed to you. "
52 " That is what growing old consists of, mostly. One starts giving away items and belongings until only the memories are left. In the end, what else do we really require?I examined her words carefully, and the answer came slowly but without any equivocation. Someone to share those memories with, I said finally, surprising myself. "
53 " He stopped, pausing to arrange his words like an ikebana expert with his flowers, shifting, bending, adding, and taking away to achieve the results he desired. "
54 " Complete surrender, but not total abandonment of awareness. "
55 " I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. "
56 " Then you understand that certain things cannot be stopped, that they must be allowed to proceed, regardless of the consequences? "
57 " When you are lost in this world, or on the continent of time itself,remember who you have been and you will know who you are "
― Tan Twan Eng
58 " Be wary when duty speaks, for it often masks the voice of others. Others who do not have your interests at heart. "
59 " Veins of lightning flared and throbbed behind the wall of clouds, turning the bruised sky pink, and I felt I was being granted glimpses of blood pulsing silently through the ventricles of an immense human heart. "
60 " I am pleased that you train so much on your own. I value the amount of hard work you have put into yourself. You have realized entirely on your own that if you yourself do not put in the work required — for any endeavor! — who else will do it for you? "