Dai Sijie Quotes

We had been so unlucky. By the time we had finally learnt to read properly, there had been nothing left for us to read.

Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao

Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.