Quotes by : Madeleine Thien

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?....

Was there anyone in this world who could taste something delicious-economic freedom and political reform-a....

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the....

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits....

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how....

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most....

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply....

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the....

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow,” and Sparrow felt, for the first time,....