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“ To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday. ”

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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

Yiyun Li Change Dead Death Deception Falsehoods Lies Truth

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

~ Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li People Relationships

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

Yiyun Li Identity Politics

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

~ Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li Memory Mind Recognition