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In the Shadow of the Banyan
Vaddey Ratner
Top 10 Best Quotes
“words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.”
“We are all echoes of one another, Raami”
“I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world's suffering”
“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.”
“You can dig a hole in my heart and bury all your sadness. I'll be your grave.”
“Turn your tongue seven times before speaking. This way you'll have time to think if you ought to say the things you want to say.”
“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost innocence, and in the shadow it casts over our present world, we begin to understand what we only intuited in our naivete-that while all else may vanish, love is our one eternity.”
“Often I lose myself in the constellation of my own ideas, forever searching for point of illumination. But no matter where I look, I find you, shinning and bright, offering me what ever it is I seek, you are my one single star. My sun, my moon, my guide and direction, I know as long as I have you, I'll never lose my way. Even if I can not touch you, I know I will see you, feel you, from anywhere. If I need you I know where to find you”
“Lightning struck, the sky roared, and the night cried a giant's tears, thunderous and inconsolable.”
“Life is like that." papa turned once again to the Mekong. "Everything is connected, and sometimes we, like little fishes, are awept up in these big and powerful currents. Carried far from home...”
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