"Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead."
- Ma Jian
"I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends."
"Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of you, or more precisely on the windowsill of the covered ba..."
"I don't know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead."
"Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut ou..."
"Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb."