Author: Yiyun Li

Cites

• Rebecca West (1)
  • IN: Dear Friend from My Life I write to You in Your Life (2017) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: She had always enjoyed waking people who were asleep; and indeed it is as great an alteration to the state of a fellow-creature that we can make short of killing them or giving birth to them
    FROM: This Real Night, (1984), Book, UK
• Amy Leach (1)
  • IN: Dear Friend from My Life I write to You in Your Life (2017) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is no ladder out of any world; each world is rimless
    FROM: Thing That Are, (2012), Book, US
• W. H. Auden (1)
  • IN: The Vagrants (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes liked to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.
    FROM: The Shield of Achilles, (1952), Poem, UK
• Romain Rolland (2)
  • IN: Kinder Than Solitude (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: You can’t both live and have lived, my dear Christophe.
    FROM: Jean-Christophe, (1912), Novel, France