I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.

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The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a “soundless music”. It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.

~ You Jin

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She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.

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Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.

~ You Jin

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I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.

~ You Jin

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