Author: Madeleine Thien

Cites

• Haing S. Ngor (1)
  • IN: Dogs at the Perimeter (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Tell the gods what is happening to me.
    FROM: Survival in the Killing Fields, (1987), Book, Canada/America
• Albert Einstein (1)
  • IN: Certainty (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: For we convinced physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.
    FROM: Letter of condolence to the family of Michelangelo Besso, (1955), Letter, Germany
• Michael Ignatieff (1)
  • IN: Certainty (2006) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: He said we could face the worst if we simply renounced our yearning for certainty. But who among us is capable of that renunciation?
    FROM: The Needs of Strangers, (1984), Book, Canada
• Roo Borson (1)
  • IN: Simple Recipes (2001) fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: A house is a simple construct. The builders die, but it goes on. And still every childhood matters, like mint grown in the shade, all translation is painstaking, and has no natural melody. The world may be old, but even then it was old, without end or beginning.
    FROM: "Milk", (1996), Poem, Canada
• Wei Zhang (1)
  • IN: Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There are a thousand ways to live. Just how many do the two of us know?
    FROM: The Ancient Ship, (1987), Novel, China
• Colin Thubron (1)
  • IN: Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Of all the scenes that crowded the cave walls, the richest and most intricate were those of paradise.
    FROM: Shadow of the Silk Road, (2006), Book, UK