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Shanghai Baby QUOTES

Shanghai Baby QUOTES

1 " Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

2 " Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

3 " I think too much, and 99.9 per cent of men don’t want to get involved with a woman who thinks too much. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

4 " Love was a miracle the flesh couldn’t copy. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

5 " It’s hard to deny life’s little ironies. Wrong place, wrong roles, but united in our commitment to life’s young dream. And yet, our bodies were already tarnished and our minds beyond yelp. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

6 " Death’s shadow only fades little by little as time passes. There will never be more than a thin glass barrier between your present and the wreckage of your past "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

7 " Fear of loneliness is what teaches us to love, "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

8 " On the surface we're two utterly different types. I'm full of energy and ambition, and see the world as a scented fruit just waiting to be eaten. He is introspective, romantic and for him life is a cake laced with arsenic, every bite poisons him a little more. But our differences only increased our mutual attraction, like the inseparable north and south magnetic poles. We rapidly fell in love. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

9 " What I saw was a face which couldn’t be called pretty, but one also not easily forgotten: pointed features, oblique eyebrows, pale skin with slightly enlarged pores, and expensive lipstick that threatened to drip off her lips. Once beautiful, but now a dream in which willow branches have withered, clouds have scattered and drifting petals have fallen to the ground. A face that has been corroded by pleasure, impetuosity and dreams, each of which has left scars on it, leaving it sharp yet worn, capable of hurting, yet vulnerable as well. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

10 " Death is the expression of exhaustion, a solution arrived at rationally once one has known the deepest depths of tiredness. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

11 " Tal vez una escritora simplemente inspira confianza debido a su capacidad intuitiva y a su comprensión. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

12 " Sabia que estaba algo tomada, estar un poco borracha es agradable, todo se puede ver más claro, como cuando la niebla se dispersa. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

13 " Kundera dijo que en el siglo XXI todos serán escritores, con sólo tomar la pluma y escribir lo que se piensa. El deseo de compartir sus sentimientos es una necesidad espiritual de todos los seres humanos. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

14 " Tian Tian'in de gözlerinin kapalı olduğunu gördüm. Kırmızı şarap içip üflemek insanın uykusunu getirir ve onun da çoktan uykuya daldığından eminim. Tian Tian gürültülü sesler ve hayalet gölgeler arasında uykuya dalmayı daha kolay bulur. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

15 " Akılsızca bir seçim yapmıştım. Tohumla çiçeği ayırt edememiştim. Ve kadının erkeğini seçmekteki hatası, onun en büyük utancıdır. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

16 " She believes in these words: suck dry the juice of life like a leech, including its secret happiness and hurt, spontaneous passion and eternal longing. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

17 " Bu yüzden iyi bir yazar olacaksın. Bir yazar geçmişi sözcükleriyle gömer. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

18 " In my novel, a couple hold each other close as a raging fire spreads through their room. They know they can’t leave. Fire has sealed off all windows and corridors, leaving them only one thing to do: make love madly in the heart of the blaze. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

19 " İkimiz de biraz şaşkındık. Tian Tian'in yatakta gözleri kapalı beni dinlediğini ve telefonun ucundaki Alman'ın neden beni aradığını biliyordum. Böylesi hassas bir durum tıpkı haşhaşlı brownie gibiydi. Öyle önemli bir tadı yoktu,hatta bir parça fazla yemek bile tadı hakkındaki yorumunuza bir şey katmazdı, ama o üçüncü ısırıştan sonra hoş olmayan ve sizi salıveren bir şey olurdu. Ve belki de derinlerde bir yerlerde bunu şiddetle arzulayan türde bir kızdım. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby

20 " Back before we began, we’d lost the chance of a chance. Time’s high-speed train whistled and rumbled through modern tower blocks into the distance. My tears meant nothing. The joys and sorrows of any one person mean nothing, because the train’s massive steel wheels never stop spinning. This is the secret that terrifies everyone in the cities in this fucking material age. "

― Wei Hui , Shanghai Baby