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“ When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present. ”

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When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

~ Yiyun Li

People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise.

~ Yiyun Li

I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.

~ Yiyun Li

There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.

~ Yiyun Li