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The Seventh Day QUOTES

The Seventh Day QUOTES

1 " With relief I arrived at memory's peak,
and a broader landscape came into view. "

― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day

2 " ... because my memory had caught up with the world that had gone away. "

― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day

3 " Per la mia imbranataggine in materia, ero come una casa senza porte e finestre: l'amore faceva su e giù, io sentivo il rumore dei passi, ma credevo che fosse lì per caso e diretto altrove. Finché, un giorno, si fece avanti e suonò il campanello. "

― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day

4 " Four other old folk emerged one by one to join their brother. All five siblings wore cheap polyester clothes, and standing in a group they looked very much alike. They differed only in their heights, like the fingers of a single hand. "

― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day

5 " Several times I ran into a crowd of [redacted], dozens of them. They were not like the other [redacted] that sometimes gathered together and sometimes separated--this crowd stayed consistently together as they walked, a little like the moon's reflection on water, which keeps floating in a discrete shape no matter how the waves tug. "

― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day

6 " La casetta si sta allontanando e i binari sono volati via. Continuo a perdermi inseguendo le mie tracce, e mi stanco. Mi siedo su una pietra, serafico come un albero. E i miei ricordi sembrano dei maratoneti mentre corrono al mondo che ho lasciato. "

― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day

7 " أنا لا أخاف الموت، لا أخشاه إطلافاً، وخوفي يكمن في عدم رؤيتك مرة أخرى "

― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day

8 " لم يتغير اسم المكان ولكن تغيرت سائر الأشياء الأخرى "

― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day

9 " مادامت أسرتنا تقيم معاً، لا يهم أين تكون أرض الراحة الأبدية "

― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day